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unitedstates / congress-legislators

Members of the United States Congress, 1789-Present, in YAML/JSON/CSV, as well as committees, presidents, and vice presidents.
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Historical fixes #720

Closed JoshData closed 4 years ago

JoshData commented 4 years ago

I was looking at whether Rep. Mfume's 24-year absence from Congress was a record (no, Maryland congressman Rep. Phillip Thomas seems to hold that record, with a 34-year absence between 1841-1875).

In the process I found some data errors that all appear to be duplicates of the entire terms of representatives hidden in similar-named representatives. These edits seem to date back to my original 2009 parse of Bioguide. This PR removes those duplicates and makes some fixes that I found while researching the errors.

dwillis commented 4 years ago

Talk about going down your rabbit holes! Nice work.