Who's Who - Politicians
This sub-section of the Who's Who
category of the site contains folio biographies of the politicians who
guided belligerent nations throughout four years of war from 1914-18.
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They include entries for the two British wartime Prime Ministers, the U.S. President (and his two secretaries of state), plus the three German Chancellors who found themselves subordinated to the German military machine.
In addition to the biographies presented below, click here to view contemporary photographs of politicians within the Vintage Photographs section of the site.
| Biographies | Description |
|---|---|
 Viktor Adler |
Social Democrat |
 Sir William Maxwell Aitken |
Minister of Information |
 Sir James Allen |
Minister of Defence |
| Julius Andrassy |
Foreign Minister |
| Herbert Henry Asquith |
Prime Minister |
| Moritz von Auffenberg |
Minister of War |
 Jean Augagneur |
Minister of Marine |
 Alexandru Averescu |
Prime Minister |
 Prince Max von Baden |
Chancellor |
 Newton Baker |
Secretary of War |
| Arthur Balfour |
Foreign Secretary |
| Otto Bauer |
Foreign Secretary |
| Lord Beaverbrook |
Minister of Information |
 Eduard Benes |
Foreign Minister |
| Count Leopold von Berchtold |
Foreign Minister |
| Count von Bernstorff |
Ambassador to U.S. |
| Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg |
Chancellor |
| Otto von Bismarck |
19th Century Chancellor |
| Andrew Bonar Law |
Conservative Leader |
 Sir Robert Borden |
Prime Minister |
 Paolo Boselli |
Prime Minister |
 Louis Botha |
Prime Minister |
| Ion Bratianu |
Prime Minister |
| Aristide Briand |
Prime Minister |
 Baron Charles de Broqueville |
Prime Minister |
| Lord Bryce |
Author, Bryce Report |
| Count Istvan Burian von Rajecz |
Foreign Minister |
| William Jennings Bryan |
Secretary of State |
| John Buchan |
Director of Information |
| Joseph Caillaux |
Prime Minister |
| Paul Cambon |
Foreign Minister |
| Eduard von Capelle |
Naval Minister |
| Sir Edward Carson |
Leader, UVF |
| Sir Winston Churchill |
First Lord of the Admiralty |
| Heinrich von Clam-Martinic |
Prime Minister |
| Georges Clemenceau |
Prime Minister |
| Ottokar Czernin |
Foreign Minister |
| Alfredo Dallolio |
Minister of Munitions |
| Josephus Daniels |
Secretary of the Navy |
| Gabriele D'Annunzio |
Politician/Soldier |
| Augustin Boue de Lapeyrere |
Minister of War |
| Theophile Delcasse |
Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| Lord Derby |
Minister of War |
 Mehmed Djaved Bey |
Finance Minister |
| Ahmed Djemal Pasha |
Military Governor of Syria |
| Constantin Dumba |
Ambassador to US |
| Friedrich Ebert |
Chancellor |
| Enver Pasha |
Minister of War |
| Matthias Erzberger |
Politician |
 Andrew Fisher |
Prime Minister |
| Lindley Garrison |
Secretary of War |
| Sir Auckland Geddes |
Minister of National Service |
| Sir Eric Geddes |
First Lord of the Admiralty |
| James W. Gerard |
U.S. Ambassador to Germany |
 Ivan Goremykin |
Prime Minister |
| Sir Edward Grey |
Foreign Secretary |
| Ivan Grigorovich |
Naval Minister |
| Wilhelm Groener |
General |
| Alexander Guchkov |
Minister of War |
| Hugo Haase |
Co-chairman of SPD Party |
| Lord Haldane |
Lord Chancellor |
| Warren G Harding |
President |
| Alfred Harmsworth |
Director of Propaganda |
| Karl Helfferich |
Minister of Finance/Interior |
| Count Hertling |
Chancellor |
| Paul von Hintze |
Foreign Minister |
| Miklos Horthy de Nagybanya |
Regent |
| Colonel House |
Special Advisor to President Wilson |
| Billy Hughes |
Prime Minister |
| Sam Hughes |
Minister of Militia and Defence |
| Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein |
Prime Minister |
| Paul Hymans |
Foreign Secretary |
| Ahmed Izzet Pasha |
Grand Vizier |
| Gottlieb von Jagow |
Foreign Minister |
| Jean Jaures |
Socialist Party Leader |
| Count Karolyi |
Prime Minister |
| Mustafa Kemal Pasha |
Post-war President |
| Alexander Kerenski |
Leader, Prov. Govt. |
| Lord Kitchener |
Minister of War |
| Alexander Krivoshein |
Minister of Agriculture |
| Ernst von Korber |
Minister-President |
| Karel Kramar |
Independence Campaigner |
| Alexander von Krobatin |
Minister of War |
| Bela Kun |
Prime Minister |
| Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze |
Minister of Marine |
| Heinrich Lammasch |
Minister-President |
| Robert Lansing |
Secretary of State |
| Sir Wilfrid Laurier |
Prime Minister |
| Karl Liebknecht |
Revolutionary Politician |
| Walter Lippmann |
Assistant to Secretary of War |
| David Lloyd George |
Prime Minister |
| Henry Cabot Lodge |
Senate Majority Leader |
| Rosa Luxemburg |
Revolutionary |
| Prince Georgy Lvov |
Prime Minister |
| Hubert Lyautey |
War Minister |
| Nikolai Maklakov |
Minister of the Interior |
 Alexander Malinov |
Prime Minister |
| Louis Malvy |
Minister of the Interior |
| Alexandru Marghiloman |
Prime Minister |
| Tomas Masaryk |
President |
| William Massey |
Prime Minister |
| Charles Masterman |
Head of War Propaganda |
| William McAdoo |
Treasury Secretary |
| Reginald McKenna |
Home Secretary |
| Georg Michaelis |
Chancellor |
| Alexandre Millerand |
Minister of War |
| Lord Alfred Milner |
Minister of War |
| Henry Morgenthau |
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey |
| Benito Mussolini |
Future Fascist Dictator |
| Lord Northcliffe |
Director of Propaganda |
| Gustav Noske |
Politician |
| Vittorio Orlando |
Prime Minister |
 Ignace Paderewski |
Prime Minister |
| Paul Painleve |
Prime Minister |
 Nikola Pasic |
Prime Minister |
| Josef Pilsudski |
General |
| Raymond Poincare |
President |
| Alexei Polivanov |
Minister of War |
| Vasil Radoslavov |
Prime Minister |
| Walter Rathenau |
Head of KRA |
| Alexandre Ribot |
Prime Minister |
| Mikhail Rodzianko |
Duma President |
| Said Halim Pasha |
Grand Vizier |
| Antonio Salandra |
Prime Minister |
| Marquis di San Giuliano |
Foreign Minister |
| Sergei Sazonov |
Foreign Minister |
| Philip Scheidemann |
President, Weimar Rep. |
| Dmitry Shuvaev |
Minister of War |
| Jan Christian Smuts |
Prime Minister |
| Wilhelm Solf |
Colonial/Foreign Minister |
| Sidney Sonnino |
Foreign Minister |
| Alexander Stamboliski |
Anti-Monarchist |
| R. Stoger-Steiner v Steinstatten |
War Minister |
| Gustav Stresemann |
Post-war Chancellor |
| Count Karl von Sturgkh |
Minister-President |
| Boris Sturmer |
Prime Minister |
| Vladimir Sukhomlinov |
Minister of War |
| Mehmed Talaat Pasha |
Minister of the Interior |
| Albert Thomas |
Under-Secretary for Munitions |
| Christopher Thomson |
Military Attaché to Romania |
| Count Tisza |
Hungarian Prime Minister |
 Ante Trumbic |
Foreign Minister |
 Eleutherios Venizelos |
Prime Minister |
| Rene Viviani |
Prime Minister |
| Sir Joseph Ward |
Prime Minister |
| Alexander Wekerle |
Prime Minister |
| Kuno von Westarp |
Politician |
| Brand Whitlock |
Ambassador to Belgium |
| Woodrow Wilson |
President |
| Nikola Zhekov |
Minister of War |
| Arthur Zimmermann |
Foreign Secretary |
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