Biographical directory of the united states congress
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The Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress includes biographical sketches of each of the nearly 12, individuals who have served in the Congress of the United States since and in the Continental Congresses between and
Predecessor Volumes and Print Editions
The last printed volume, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, –, was the sixteenth in a series of such reference works published since Charles Lanman, author, journalist, and former secretary to Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, gathered the first collection of biographies of former and sitting Members of Congress for his Dictionary of Congress, published by J. B. Lippincott & Co. in
In , the House of Representatives and the Senate approved the publication of an updated version of Lanman’s Dictionary of Congress by the recently established Government Printing Office. Two years later a Senate resolution to publish another update of Lanman’s publication failed in the House Committee on Printing. The Senate, nevertheless, arranged for publication of this update of the Dictionary of Congress, which included for the first time entries on the delegates to the Continental Congresses. After Congress offered Benjamin Perley Poore, a journalist and clerk of the Senate Committee on
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
American biographical dictionary
This article is about the directory of every member since For the directory of photographs of members of each Congress since , see Congressional Pictorial Directory. For the directory of each Congress since , see Official Congressional Directory.
The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (Bioguide) is a biographical dictionary of all present and former members of the United States Congress and its predecessor, the Continental Congress. Also included are Delegates from territories and the District of Columbia and Resident Commissioners from the Philippines and Puerto Rico.
The online edition has a guide to the research collections of institutions where a member's papers, letters, correspondence, and other items are archived, as well as an extended bibliography of published works concerning the member (a shorter bibliography is included with the member's biography).[1] These additional resources, when available, can be accessed via links at the left side of the member's page on the website.
History
[edit]Charles Lanman, author, journalist, and former secretary to Daniel Webster, gathered the first collection of biographies of former and sitting members
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