John Foster Dulles

John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) was an American politician. Short Biography: Senior US adviser at the founding of the United Nations, he was largely responsible for drafting the...

Michael Dukakis

Michael Dukakis (born in 1933) was an American Democrat politician, governor of Massachusetts 1974-1978 and from 1982, presiding over a high-tech economic boom, the "Massachusetts miracle"....

Alexander Dubcek

Alexander Dubcek (1921-1992) was secretary of the Communist Party 1967-1969, he launched a liberalization campaign (the Prague Spring). Short Biography: He was arrested by invading...

Takako Doi

Takako Doi (born in 1928) is a Japanese socialist politician, leader of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) from 1986 and responsible for much of its recent revival. Short Biography...

Anatoly Dobrynin

Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin (1919-2010) was a Soviet diplomat, ambassador to the USA 1962-1986, emerging during the 1970s as a warm supporter of detente. Short Biography: Dobrynin...

Milovan Djilas

Milovan Djilas (1911-1995) was a Yugoslav political writer and dissident. Short Biography: A former close wartime colleague of Marshal Tito, in 1953 he was dismissed from high...

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) was a British Conservative politician and novelist. Elected to Parliament 1837, he was chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Derby...

Georgi Dimitrov

Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949) was a Bulgarian Communist, prime minister from 1946. Short Biography: He was elected a deputy in 1913, and from 1919 was a member of the executive...

John Diefenbaker

John George Diefenbaker (1895-1979) was an Canadian Progressive Conservative politician. Short Biography: He was prime minister 1957-1963, when he was defeated after criticism...

Spencer Cavendish

Spencer Compton Cavendish Devonshire, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908) was a British Liberal politician, known as Lord Hartington 1858-1891, and leader of the Liberal Party 1874-1880....

Eamon de Valera

Eamon de Valera (1882-1975) was a Irish nationalist politician, prime minister of the Republic of Ireland 1932-1948, 1951-1954, and 1957-1959, and president 1959-1973. Short Biography...

Edward Smith-Stanley

Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley Derby, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869) was a British politician, prime minister in 1852, 1858-1859, and 1866-1868. Short Biography: Originally a...

Rauf Denktash

Rauf Raif Denktash (born in 1924) was a Turkish-Cypriot politician. Short Biography: In 1975 the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus (TFSC) was formed in the northern third of...

Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping formerly Teng Hsiao-ping (1904-1997) was a Chinese political leader. A member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from the 1920s, he took part in the Long March 1934-1936....

Demosthenes

Demosthenes (c. 384-322 BC) was an Athenian orator and politician. Short Biography: From 351 BC he led the party that advocated resistance to the growing power of Philip of Macedon...

Jacques Delors

Jacques Delors (born in 1925) was a French socialist politician, finance minister 1981-1984. Short Biography: As president of the European Commission from 1984 he has overseen...

Thomas West

Thomas West de la Warr, Baron de la Warr (1577-1618) was appointed governor of Wginia in 1609, he arrived in 1610 just in time to prevent the desertion of the Jamestown colonists, and...

Eugene V. Debs

Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) was an American labour leader and socialist, who organized the Social Democratic Party in 1897. Short Biography: He was the founder and first president...

Moshe Dayan

Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was a Israeli general and politician. Short Biography: As minister of defence in 1967 and 1969-1974, he was largely responsible for the victory over neighbouring...

Charles G. Dawes

Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951) was an American Republican politician. Short Biography: In 1923 he was appointed by the Allied Reparations Commission president of he committee...

Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was an American politician, president of the short-lived Confederate States of America 1861-1865. Short Biography: He was a leader of the Southern...

Edouard Daladier

Edouard Daladier (1884-1970) was a French Radical politician. Short Biography: As prime minister (1938-March 1940), he was largely responsible both for the Munich Agreement (by...

John Curtin

John Curtin (1885-1945) was an Australian Labor politician, prime minister and minister of defence 1941-1945. Short Biography: He was elected leader of the Labor Party in 1935....

William Augustus Cumberland

William Augustus Cumberland, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765) was a British general, who ended the Jacobite rising in Scotland with the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Short Biography...