BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political

Colonel Benjamin Stephenson and the History of Early Illinois

by Sidney G. Denny

Lincoln’s Conservative Advisor

Attorney General Edward Bates

by Mark A. Neels

Son of Southern Illinois

Glenn Poshard's Life in Politics and Education

by Carl Walworth and Glenn Poshard

Son of Southern Illinois

Glenn Poshard’s Life in Politics and Education

by Carl Walworth and Glenn Poshard

From Slave to State Legislator

John W. E. Thomas, Illinois' First African American Lawmaker

by David A Joens

Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago

A Dual Biography of Mayor Augustus Garrett and Seminary Founder Eliza Clark Garrett

by Charles H. Cosgrove

Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric

by Michelle Hall Kells

The Gambler King of Clark Street

Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago's Democratic Machine

by Richard C Lindberg

Nobody Calls Just to Say Hello

Reflections on Twenty-Two Years in the Illinois Senate

by Philip J. Rock and Ed Wojcicki

Dividing the Union

Jesse Burgess Thomas and the Making of the Missouri Compromise

by Matthew W. Hall

The Maverick and the Machine

Governor Dan Walker Tells His Story

by Dan Walker

Achieve the Honorable

A Missouri Congressman's Journey from Warm Springs to Washington

by Ike Skelton

The Gentleman from Illinois

Stories from Forty Years of Elective Public Service

by Alan J Dixon

The Heroic and the Notorious

U.S. Senators from Illinois

by David Kenney and Robert E Hartley

Paul Simon

The Political Journey of an Illinois Original

by Robert E Hartley

Governor Richard Ogilvie

In the Interest of the State

by Taylor Pensoneau