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In anticipation of the centenary of American independence and in search of a market not served by Poore ’ s Congressional Directory, Lanman prepared the Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, published by James Anglim of Washington in 1876.
In 1903 Congress authorized the publication of A Biographical Congressional Directory, 1774 to 1903.
* " ICHORD, Richard Howard, II, ( 1926-1992 )", Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774 – Present.
* Congressional Biographical Directory: Sheridan Downey-From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
In additional to his newspaper writing, Poore served as clerk of the committee of the United States Senate on printing records, where he edited the Congressional Directory and the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Congressional and Directory
" In 1920, the Congressional Directory listed nearly 80 committees, including the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments.
Lanman intended his Dictionary of the United States Congress to serve primarily as a guide for sitting Members of Congress, much as the Congressional Directory functions today.
In the late 1860s Congress offered Benjamin Perley Poore, a journalist and clerk of the Senate Committee on Printing and Records, the job of preparing a Congressional Directory with biographical sketches and the kind of reference information found in the Dictionary of Congress.
Poore offered a competing historical volume in 1878 with his Political Register and Congressional Directory, published by Houghton, Osgood and Company of Boston.
Compiled under the direction of O. M. Enyart, this was the first volume prepared by congressional staff who drew on the Lanman and Poore editions as well as biographical information printed in the Congressional Directory since the 40th United States Congress ( 1867 ).
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-- And proposals for a whole series of lesser candidate-picking conventions in the state's 38 new Congressional districts.
In addition to maintaining a permanent central file of illustrations of diseases, wounds, and injuries of military importance, it provides facilities for clinical photography, photomicrography, and medical arts, and operates a printing plant, by permission of Congressional Committee, for publication of an `` Atlas of Tumor Pathology ''.
The results of the election of 1859 found Republican candidates not only winning the offices of governor and lieutenant-governor but also obtaining the two Congressional offices from the eastern and western sections of the state.
A unified concept can serve as a guide to budgeting and, if public support is gained, will command Congressional support.
`` My personal view is that not one patented invention in ten is worth making '', he later told a Congressional committee.
In the $40,000,000 budget that has been submitted for Congressional approval, $26,000,000 would be spent through universities and private voluntary agencies.
The 1857 Congressional rejection of the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was the first multi-party solid-North vote, and that solid vote was anti-slavery to support the anti-slavery majority in Kansas Territory.
In 1857 the Supreme Court ’ s Dred Scott decision ended the Congressional compromise for Popular Sovereignty in Kansas.
* 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
When not on the House floor, Johnson, in Washington without wife Eliza, shunned social functions in favor of increased self study and reading in the Congressional library.
Johnson won a second Congressional term in 1845 against his perennial opponent, Wiliam G. Brownlow ; in this second campaign, Johnson particularly took up the mantle as defender of the poor against the aristocracy.
Between Congressional sessions he toured Kentucky and Ohio, trying in vain to convince any Union commander who would listen to conduct an operation into East Tennessee.
The emancipation of slaves would give the South more voters and cause the end of the three-fifths compromise in the Constitution in terms of Congressional apportionment.
The amendment was submitted to the states for ratification by Congressional joint resolution, and therefore was not subject to Presidential veto, though Johnson vigorously opposed it, again because so many southern states were not represented in the Congress.
During a Congressional recess, Johnson died from a stroke near Elizabethton, Tennessee, on July 31, 1875.
According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.
The Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus between the years 1998 and 2000, the last three years of Clinton's presidency.
The Congressional Budget Office reported budget surpluses of $ 69 billion in 1998, $ 126 billion in 1999, and $ 236 billion in 2000, during the last three years of Clinton's presidency.
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