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Correct first name/suffix for E. G. "Bud" Shuster #146

Closed wilson428 closed 11 years ago

wilson428 commented 11 years ago

In trying to match names to bioguide IDs, my script tripped over E.G. "Bud" Shuster, born 1932, father of current member Bill Shuster:

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000394

The historical file lists him as Bill Shuster Sr., but he's Elmer Greinert "Bud" Shuster (Not Sr.).

Easy to fix, but wondering if that was generated programmatically so I can track down source of error.

konklone commented 11 years ago

We get names programmatically for the Senate, from here, but for the House we don't normally, I think. There's some code to get names from the House Clerk's contact spreadsheet, but it's off by default and its comments say it's only to be used as a stopgap.

I think you're fine to manually override. Thanks for reporting this.

JoshData commented 11 years ago

It's historical. Was the bane of my existence around 2003. Lemme peek tonight.

Eric Mill notifications@github.com wrote:

We get names programmatically for the Senate, from here, but for the House we don't normally, I think. There's some code to get names from the House Clerk's contact spreadsheet, but it's off by default and its comments say it's only to be used as a stopgap.

I think you're fine to manually override. Thanks for reporting this.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators/issues/146#issuecomment-26745494

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JoshData commented 11 years ago

Yeah, ok. I don't know what I did but I screwed this up in my db (where this came from) many years ago. Bill Shuster's staff pointed out a similar problem in his record earlier this year (https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators/commit/eefcf82840bdb5148cb2e0b4d03e9bea6683b2c5). I made them a Sr/Jr pair when they weren't that at all, and I don't have records that go that far back to explain why.