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This article is COMPLETE and meets the current standard for this series of articles.
suggestions for future improvements:

supplemental Senate & House committees article
supplemental district maps article
narrative for major legislation
narrative for major events

stilltim 11:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bunkum[edit]

I've added a reference to the origin of the term "bunkum" from a speech by Felix Walker. However in the context of Congress I wonder whether this really counts as a major event. Please do remove if you think it's inappropriate. --TS 15:03, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Numbers[edit]

This article states that there were 26 Federalists elected to the House of Representatives in the 16th Congress, yet 28 Representatives of those elected at the start of the Congress are marked (F). The House Congressional Profile for the 16th Congress agrees that there were 26 Federalists, indicating that there must be two Representatives mislabeled. I was able to find party affiliations on the House's biographical search for all but four of those marked as Federalists, namely Louis McLane of Delaware, Henry R. Warfield of Maryland, Silas Wood of New York, and Thomas Van Swearingen of Virginia. XinaNicole (talk) 06:05, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Since party affiliation was then not "of record", the election being nominal, it is really difficult to ascertain. The House bios try to get at it by the voting record, which is somewhat doubtful because many members voted either way when it suited their interests. For the New Yorkers we have the election results until about 1825, compiled from old newspapers by Phil Lampi, and other sources, like the general political history of the State. At the United States House of Representatives elections, 1818 in half the State representatives were elected on Federalist/Clintonian fusion tickets, which makes it even more difficult, see there fore more info on Silas Wood. Kraxler (talk) 13:24, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Number of Senate vacancies[edit]

Under Party summary | Senate, it says that there were three vacancies at the beginning; yet, under Changes in membership | Senate, it only lists two vacancies - Georgia (Class 2) and Kentucky (Class 3) Rmallett (talk) 09:11, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed.—GoldRingChip 12:12, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. There is a similar apparent discrepancy for the 17th. Congress. Rmallett (talk) 21:50, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And the 18th. Congress - 2 vacancies in the table, but 3 vacancies listed. Also in Members | Senate | Delaware, Nicholas van Dyke is described as Class 2, but in Changes in membership | Senate, he is described as Class 1. Rmallett (talk) 22:25, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you can be sure of these changes, want to fix them yourself? Be Bold!—GoldRingChip 13:44, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Done (correctly I hope !) Rmallett (talk) 16:35, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Looks good!—GoldRingChip 16:44, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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