The current bio guide photo is correct. The retro one is not. Since this seems like an improbable bug, I tried to investigate what happened. It looks like there was a screw-up on congress's side somewhere, because Hagerty's photo is actually Joseph Lister Hill, Senator:
The issue is that Bill Hagerty definitely should not be H000601; Hagerty is substantially alphabetically earlier than Hill. You can see that H000598, 599, 600, and 602 are all Hills and that the initial bioguide IDs were assigned in alphabetical order. It looks like 601 was never allocated to begin with. If you look at the classic ICPSR numbers you see the following mapping:
4414: H000596
4415: H000597
4416: H000599
4417: H000600
4418 (this is Joseph Lister Hill): H000598 [out of order]
4419: H000602 [skipped H000601]
4420: H000603
So then decades later, Hagerty is elected an allocated H000601 and for some reason they show the picture for H000598?
Anyway, notwithstanding why this happened, I'll just switch the bioguide scrape to the new bioguide and we'll see how it goes.
aaronrudkin
commented
3 years ago
Bill Hagerty, U.S. Senator:
https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000601 https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=H000601
The current bio guide photo is correct. The retro one is not. Since this seems like an improbable bug, I tried to investigate what happened. It looks like there was a screw-up on congress's side somewhere, because Hagerty's photo is actually Joseph Lister Hill, Senator:
https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=H000598
The issue is that Bill Hagerty definitely should not be H000601; Hagerty is substantially alphabetically earlier than Hill. You can see that H000598, 599, 600, and 602 are all Hills and that the initial bioguide IDs were assigned in alphabetical order. It looks like 601 was never allocated to begin with. If you look at the classic ICPSR numbers you see the following mapping:
4414: H000596 4415: H000597 4416: H000599 4417: H000600 4418 (this is Joseph Lister Hill): H000598 [out of order] 4419: H000602 [skipped H000601] 4420: H000603
So then decades later, Hagerty is elected an allocated H000601 and for some reason they show the picture for H000598?
Anyway, notwithstanding why this happened, I'll just switch the bioguide scrape to the new bioguide and we'll see how it goes.