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Bibliographic criteria: genre=Biography keywords=Presidential Campaigns period=Lincoln Burr, Samuel Jones. The Life and Times of William Henry Harrison . New York: L. W. Ransom, 1840. [format: book], [genre: biography]. Permission: University of Chicago Persistent link to this document: http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/file.php?file=burr.html
Cushing, Caleb. Outlines of the Life and Public Services, Civil and Military, of William Henry Harrison . Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1840. [format: book], [genre: biography]. Permission: Public domain
Green, Beriah. Sketches of the Life and Writings of James Gillespie Birney . Utica, N.Y.: Jackson and Chaplin, 1844. [format: book], [genre: biography]. Permission: Northern Illinois University
Sargent, Epes. The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay . New York: Greeley and McElrath, 1844. [format: book], [genre: biography]. Permission: Northern Illinois University
Crockett, David. The Life of Martin Van Buren, Heir-Apparent to the 'Government,' and the Appointed Successor of General Andrew Jackson. Containing Every Authentic Particular by Which His Extraordinary Character Has Been Formed. With a Concise History of the Events That Have Occasioned His Unparalleled Elevation; Together with a Review of His Policy as a Statesman . New York: Nafis and Cornish, 1845. [format: book], [genre: biography; history; narrative]. Permission: Public domain
Frost, John; Taylor, Zachary; Ampudia, Pedro de; Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de; Scott, Winfield; Doniphan, Alexander. Life of Major General Zachary Taylor; with Notices of the War in New Mexico, California, and in Southern Mexico; and Biographical Sketches of Officers Who Have Distinguished Themselves in the War With Mexico . New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1847. [format: book], [genre: biography; history]. Permission: Public domain
Montgomery, Henry; Taylor, Zachary. The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor . New York: J.C. Derby, 1847. [format: book], [genre: biography; letter]. Permission: Illinois State University
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Life of Franklin Pierce . Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. [format: book], [genre: biography]. Permission: Northern Illinois University
Mansfield, Edward D.; Scott, Winfield. Life and Services of General Winfield Scott, Including the Siege of Vera Cruz, the Battle of Cerro Gordo, and the Battles in the Valley of Mexico, to the Conclusion of Peace, and His Return to the United States . New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1852. [format: book], [genre: biography; history; letter; government document]. Permission: Public domain
Author unknown. Republican Campaign Edition for the Million. Containing the Republican Platform, the Lives of Fremont and Dayton, with Beautiful Steel Portraits of Each . Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856. [format: book], [genre: biography]. Permission: Public domain
Barre, W. L. The Life and Public Services of Millard Fillmore . Buffalo, N.Y.: Wanzer, McKim and Co., 1856. [format: book], [genre: biography]. Permission: University of Chicago
Upham, Charles Wentworth; Fremont, John Charles. Life of John Charles Fremont . Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. [format: book], [genre: biography; diary; travelogue]. Permission: Northern Illinois University
Hinton, Richard Josiah; Lincoln, Abraham; Hamlin, Hannibal. The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine . Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. [format: book], [genre: speech; biography]. Permission: Northern Illinois University
National Democratic Executive Committee; Breckinridge, John C.; Lane, Joseph. Biographical Sketches of Hon. John C. Breckinridge: Democratic Nominee for President, and General Joseph Lane, Democratic Nominee for Vice President. Breckinridge and Lane Campaign Document, No. 8 . Washington City: National Democratic Executive Committee, 1860. [format: book], [genre: biography]. Permission: Public domain
Sheahan, James W.; Douglas, Stephen A. The Life of Stephen A. Douglas . New York: Harper and Brothers, 1860. [format: book], [genre: biography; government document; letter; speech]. Permission: Northern Illinois University
Warden, Robert B. A Voter's Version of the Life and Character of Stephen A. Douglas . Columbus: Follett, Foster, and Company, 1860. [format: book], [genre: biography]. Permission: Northern Illinois University
Herndon, William H; Weik, Jesse William. Herndon's Lincoln; The True Story of a Great Life; The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln . Chicago, New York: Belford, Clarke and Company, 1889. [format: book], [genre: biography]. Permission: Northern Illinois University
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