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- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress"This Directory provides brief biographical information, including party affiliation, for all members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives from the Continental Congress to the present."
- Biography.comCovers celebrities and other persons in the national media.
- FemBio.org"Contains biographical information on over 30,000 notable women worldwide. Accumulated since 1982; entries added continually."
- Free Birthday DatabaseIn addition to showing you probable birth dates for persons matching your search criteria, this resource will also link to Intelius People Search.
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These resources are available for on-site use only in the Grants Information Collection at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library. (UW-Madison students, faculty, staff may access these databases on- or off-site using a UW-Madison NetID unless otherwise noted.)
- Current BiographyCurrent Biography contains the full text of more than 15,000 biographies and 9,400 obituaries that have appeared in Current Biography Yearbook since 1940.
- Marquis Who's Who"... a collection of over 1.3 million biographies that have appeared in 21 print titles since 1985... The biographies contain birth and death data, educational achievements, and personal and profession histories for individuals from many fields..."
- American Men and Women of Science, 22nd ed."A biographical dictionary of the significant players in the physical, biological, and related sciences."
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