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American Presidents
www.americanpresidents.org
This site provides detailed information about each president (including George W. Bush), along with the president’s portrait. It also provides fun and interesting facts about each president.

America’s Founding Fathers
www.colonialhall.com/index.php
This is an ongoing project to put the biographies of the founding fathers on the Web. These are currently divided into three categories: Signers of the Declaration, Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution.

Biography
www.biography.com
Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives both past and present on this website sponsored by A & E’s Biography.

Biography Resource Center
To access, select the database from the list

Congressional Biographical Directory
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
This site provides biographical information for both current and past members of both the U.S. House & Senate.

Distinguished Women Past & Present
www.distinguishedwomen.com/
This site provides detailed biographical information for famous women from all walks of life, including Art, Biology, Education, History, Law, Music, etc. Visitors to the site may search for women by name or the area for which they are famous. There is even a whole area dedicated to “Black History Month”. Articles are between 1-3 pages long and include a bibliography.

First Ladies
www.firstladies.org
This site provides information on all of the first ladies, both past and present, of the United States of America. Besides a picture, each entry provides a birth and death date (if applicable), as well as the years (term) in which she was first lady. Although an actual biography is not provided, there are links to books and other resources where information may be found.

Literature Resource Center
To access, select the Biography Resource Center from the list of databases

National Inventors Hall of Fame
www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp
Search the Hall of Fame inductee library, or browse information by inventor, invention, induction date, and by decade.

Native American Biographies
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/mative3.htm
This site provides an indexed list of links to individual biography sites.

Popes
www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm
This site provides a comprehensive list and background of all popes serving as head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Saints
www.catholic.org/saints/
This site provides brief biographical information on each of the saints.

Sports Almanac Biographies
http://infoplease.com/whowho.html
This site gives access to more than 30,000 biographical entries from the almanacs, dictionary and encyclopedia that are published by Infoplease.

Jock Bios
www.jockbio.com/HTML/jockbios.html
Looking for information and pictures on the likes of Jason Giambi or Kobe Bryant? Check out these and other famous sports people at Jockbios.com

Supreme Court Justices
http://oyez.org/justices/justices.cgi
This site provides information on not only the current justices, but also their predecessors. Information provided includes topics on their appointment, family, education and work background, case participation and other online resources. Finally, a color photograph/portrait is included.

World Leaders
www.rulers.org
This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases. Also included are the subdivisions of various countries, as well as a selection of international organizations. Recent foreign ministers of all countries are listed separately.