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Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Congress is a WikiProject intended primarily to produce articles and a consistent format for articles relating to the United States Congress, including:

  • former and current members, leaders, and employees of both houses,
  • sessions of the Congress, listing the major political events of that time, as well as all the members of that congress,
  • election cycles,
  • congressional districts,
  • procedures, customs, histories and buildings, and
  • all other articles relating to the United States Congress;

as well as templates and categories.

The current Congressional Collaborations of the Week are:
Person Beryl Anthony, Jr. Seal of Congress
Place Alabama's 8th congressional district
Thing List of United States Representatives from California

Every week three U.S. Congress-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold!
This COTW is organized by WikiProject U.S. Congress. (Nominate future collaborations or see past collaborations.)

Contents
To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Congress: edit · history · watch · refresh

Creating

Standardizing

  • Assign subjects for {{Project Congress}} usage: such as {{Project Congress|subject=person}}, …subject=place}}, or …subject=thing}}.
  • Participate in the Project Congress WikiList Workgroup to set the agenda for the future organization of Project Congress List Articles (i.e. congressional delegations and lists of senators and representatives).
  • Add succession boxes to representative ( {{USRSB}} ) and senator ( {{U.S. Senator box}} ) articles.
  • Add Officeholder infoboxes to representative and senator articles.
  • Add {{CongLinks}} template when appropriate.

Expanding

Improving

[edit] Subpages

All subpages

  • /Assessment: Assessment for Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide
  • /Bioguide: Discussion of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  • /Congressional districts: A boilerplate template for the congressional district articles
  • /COTW: Collaboration of the {Week/Fortnight/Month/etc.} – our sincere attempt to collaborate on improving Project Congress articles
  • /Ordinal congresses: A boilerplate template for the ordinal congress articles (1st through 113th Congress)
  • /Members: A style guide to congressional member articles
  • /WikiList Workgroup: A workgroup to establish organization and presentation of various project List articles (i.e. congressional delegatons and lists of senators and representatives)

[edit] Style

[edit] Wikipedia guides

[edit] Project Congress specific guides

[edit] General

[edit] Ordinal congresses

[edit] Congressional districts

[edit] Congressional delegations

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

[edit] Members

[edit] Leaders

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

[edit] Committees and Caucuses

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

[edit] Employees

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

[edit] Facilities and Agencies

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

[edit] History

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

[edit] Elections

The term of office is two years

[edit] Articles

As of 23:51, 16 June 2007 (UTC) there are >4200 articles incorporated into Cat:WikiProject U.S. Congress articles. You can help to incorporate more articles by placing {{Project Congress}} on the talk page of congress-related articles.

[edit] Special articles

[edit] Current and former featured articles

[edit] Current featured article candidates and featured article review candidates

Register your support or opposition

[edit] Current and former good articles

[edit] Did you knows (DYKs)

[edit] Ordinal congresses

[edit] Congressional districts

[edit] Congressional delegations

  • Each state has three articles on congressional delegation information:
    • organized by congressional term are listed here: Cat:United States congressional delegations by state
    • alphabetical list of representatives entitled: List of United States Representatives from STATE
    • alphabetical list of senators entitled: List of United States Senators from STATE

[edit] Members

[edit] Leaders

[edit] Committees and Caucuses

[edit] Sources

  • The Political Graveyard has short information on over 138,000 Politicians, Judges, and Diplomats. It is a good supplement to the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress as it contains information on other offices the subject may have held, as well as noting other political relatives. That website says: "Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2005 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License."

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stubs

[edit] People in general

  • {{WPBiography}} use modifiers where appropriate: | living=yes | activepol=yes | politician-work-group=yes

[edit] U.S. Senate

[edit] U.S. House of Representatives

[edit] Navigation boxes

[edit] Delegations

  • Current Congress: {{CurrentCongDeleg}}, which uses [[Template:{{{StateSymbol}}}-FedRep]], makes:
 
[[United States congressional delegations from {{{State}}}|{{{State}}}'s current delegation]] to the United States Congress
[[List of United States Senators from {{{State}}}|Senators]]
{{{Senators}}}
[[List of United States Representatives from {{{State}}}|Representative(s)]]
{{{Representatives}}}
State delegations
Alabama • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming
Non-voting delegations
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Lists of United States congressional delegations
(lists of former House members, lists of former Senators)
States
Alabama (H S) · Alaska (H S) · Arizona (H S) · Arkansas (H S) · California (H S) · Colorado (H S) · Connecticut (H S) · Delaware (H S) · Florida (H S) · Georgia (H S) · Hawaii (H S) · Idaho (H S) · Illinois (H S) · Indiana (H S) · Iowa (H S) · Kansas (H S) · Kentucky (H S) · Louisiana (H S) · Maine (H S) · Maryland (H S) · Massachusetts (H S) · Michigan (H S) · Minnesota (H S) · Mississippi (H S) · Missouri (H S) · Montana (H S) · Nebraska (H S) · Nevada (H S) · New Hampshire (H S) · New Jersey (H S) · New Mexico (H S) · New York (H S) · North Carolina (H S) · North Dakota (H S) · Ohio (H S) · Oklahoma (H S) · Oregon (H S) · Pennsylvania (H S) · Rhode Island (H S) · South Carolina (H S) · South Dakota (H S) · Tennessee (H S) · Texas (H S) · Utah (H S) · Vermont (H S) · Virginia (H S) · Washington (H S) · West Virginia (H S) · Wisconsin (H S) · Wyoming (H S)
Territories
Obsolete

[edit] Positions

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Speakers of the United States House of Representatives
Muhlenberg • Trumbull • Muhlenberg • Dayton • Sedgwick • Macon • Varnum • Clay • Cheves • Clay • Taylor • Barbour • Clay • Taylor • Stevenson • Bell • Polk • Hunter • White • Jones • Davis • Winthrop • Cobb • Boyd • Banks • Orr • Pennington • Grow • Colfax • Pomeroy • Blaine • Kerr • Randall • Keifer • Carlisle • Reed • Crisp • Reed • Henderson • Cannon • Clark • Gillett • Longworth • Garner • Rainey • Byrns • Bankhead • Rayburn • Martin • Rayburn • Martin • Rayburn • McCormack • Albert • O'Neill • Wright • Foley • Gingrich • Hastert • Pelosi
Seal of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  • For Presidents of the Senate, use the Vice President template, {{USVicePresidents}}, which makes:
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Vice Presidents of the United States
John Adams · Thomas Jefferson · Aaron Burr · George Clinton · Elbridge Gerry · Daniel D. Tompkins · John C. Calhoun · Martin Van Buren · Richard Mentor Johnson · John Tyler · George M. Dallas · Millard Fillmore · William R. King · John C. Breckinridge · Hannibal Hamlin · Andrew Johnson · Schuyler Colfax · Henry Wilson · William A. Wheeler · Chester A. Arthur · Thomas A. Hendricks · Levi P. Morton · Adlai E. Stevenson I · Garret Hobart · Theodore Roosevelt · Charles W. Fairbanks · James S. Sherman · Thomas R. Marshall · Calvin Coolidge · Charles G. Dawes · Charles Curtis · John Nance Garner · Henry A. Wallace · Harry S. Truman · Alben W. Barkley · Richard Nixon · Lyndon B. Johnson · Hubert Humphrey · Spiro Agnew · Gerald Ford · Nelson Rockefeller · Walter Mondale · George H. W. Bush · Dan Quayle · Al Gore · Dick Cheney
 Seal of the Vice President of the United States