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Aaron Rudkin edited this page Jan 18, 2021 · 35 revisions

National Sources:

  • 83rd-115th Congress: Congressional Pictorial Directory
  • 55th Congress: "Autobiographies and portraits of the President, cabinet, Supreme court, and Fifty-fifth Congress"
  • 54th Congress: "The United States Red Book"
  • 47th Congress: "Public men of to-day; being biographies of the President and Vice-president of the United States, each member of the Cabinet, the United States senators and the members of the House of representatives of the Forty-seventh Congress, the chief justice and the justices of the Supreme court of the United States, and of the governors of the several states"
  • 41st Congress: "History of Congress : The Forty-First Congress of the United States, 1869-1871"
  • 40th Congress: "History of Congress: The Fortieth Congress of the United States, 1867-1869"
  • 35th Congress: "McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress." -- photo of Caruthers missing online, get paper copy?
  • 30th Congress: "History of Congress, biographical and political comprising memoirs of members of the Congress of the United States drawn from authentic sources."
  • "Who's Who in the Pacific Southwest"

State Registers / Blue Books / Statewide resources (these are generally useful for 1900+ around when photos became routine in them):

  • Alabama Official and Statistical Register
  • Arkansas Historical Report of the Secretary of State
  • "A pictorial history of Arkansas"
  • Connecticut State Register
  • Georgia Official Register
  • Illinois Blue Book
  • Who's Who In Indiana Politics (1944)
  • Biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of the representative men of the United States (Illinois)
  • Iowa Red Book
  • Kansas Blue Book 1897
  • Massachusetts Manual for the General Court
  • Michigan Blue Book
  • Minnesota Blue Book (Legislative Manual)
  • Missouri Blue Book
  • "Illustrated History of Nebraska"
  • New York Red Book
  • North Carolina manual
  • Pennsylvania State Legislature and State Senate
  • The Pennsylvania Manual
  • Nebraska Blue Book
  • Ohio Official Roster
  • Representing Texas book
  • West Virginia Blue Book
  • Men of West Virginia, 1903
  • Wisconsin Blue Book
  • "The Columbian biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of the representative men of the United States : Wisconsin volume"

Web, Misc:

Books that seem like they might have photos but didn't:

  • Congressional Quarterly's "Members of Congress Since 1789"
  • "Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States"

Completed States:

  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Colorado
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Kansas
  • Minnesota
  • Montana
  • New Mexico
  • Nevada
  • North Dakota
  • Oklahoma
  • South Dakota
  • Utah
  • Washington
  • Wyoming
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