As women rise to positions of leadership in the workforce, Marquis Who’s Who responds with the first edition of Who’s Who of American Women, a directory containing the biographies of 20,000 formidable women from diverse industries including education, business, the arts and communications. In development for two years, the title

Marquis publisher, Wheeler Sammons Jr. has an established friendship with Carl Sandburg, who was also friends with Sammons’ father, Wheeler Sammons Sr. For the 30th edition of Who’s Who in America, Sandburg pens a foreword, in which he states, “There are many big books trying to tell What’s What or

Marquis Who’s Who editors and former President of the United States, Harry S. Truman carry on an ongoing debate about whether he had served as the 33rd or 32nd president. President Truman claims that Marquis has repeatedly made the mistake of listing him as the 33rd President of the United

Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, is a friend of Marquis publisher Wheeler Sammons Jr., who is known to have a hearty sense of humor. As the election nears, all the polls indicate that Dewey has a solid lead over current President Harry S. Truman. The Chicago

Opening to Broadway audiences at the Hudson Theatre on November 14, 1945, the play, “State of the Union” by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse chronicles the life of a fictional Republican presidential candidate. In the play, one of the characters picks up an edition of Who’s Who and remarks that the other

Albert Nelson Marquis’ death on December 21, 1943, made front-page news across America. Numerous editorials praised him for his decades as a chronicler of American achievement. The New York World Telegram summed up his contributions as follows: “It was never our privilege to meet Albert Nelson Marquis, but to us