U.S. Senators missing

[aaronrudkin]

The following U.S. Senators are missing from our collection:

Name	ICPSR	Party	Congress	State	Status
WESTCOTT, James Diament, Jr.	9966	Democratic	30	Florida	❌
CHALMERS, Joseph Williams	1618	Democratic	29	Mississippi	❌
MERRICK, William Duhurst	6427	Whig	28	Maryland	❌
CUTHBERT, Alfred	2284	Democratic	27	Georgia	❌
SMITH, Perry	8675	Democratic	27	Connecticut	❌
SPENCE, John Selby	8779	Whig	26	Maryland	❌
BETTS, Thaddeus	682	Whig	26	Connecticut	❌
BUCKNER, Alexander	1210	Jackson	23	Missouri	❌
CHASE, Dudley	1665	Anti-Jackson	21	Vermont	❌
ADAMS, Robert Huntington	37	Jackson	21	Mississippi	❌
COBB, Thomas Willis	1873	Jackson	20	Georgia	❌
KELLY, William	5155	Jackson Rep.	18	Alabama	❌
WILSON, James Jefferson	10235	Dem-Rep	16	New Jersey	❌
HORSEY, Outerbridge	4586	Federalist	16	Delaware	❌
ASHMUN, Eli Porter	271	Federalist	15	Massachusetts	❌
FROMENTIN, Eligius	3377	Dem-Rep	15	Louisiana	❌
CUTTS, Charles	2292	Dem-Rep	13	New Hampshire	❌
ROBINSON, Jonathan	7985	Dem-Rep	13	Vermont	❌
WHARTON, Jesse	9979	Dem-Rep	13	Tennessee	❌
KERR, Joseph	5210	Dem-Rep	13	Ohio	❌
GERMAN, Obadiah	3539	Dem-Rep	13	New York	❌
WALKER, George	9741	Dem-Rep	13	Kentucky	❌
BULLOCH, William Bellinger	1230	Dem-Rep	13	Georgia	❌
FRANKLIN, Jesse	3342	Dem-Rep	12	North Carolina	❌
MAGRUDER, Allan Bowie	5916	Dem-Rep	12	Louisiana	❌
SMITH, Daniel	8608	Dem-Rep	11	Tennessee	❌
GRISWOLD, Stanley	3847	Dem-Rep	11	Ohio	❌
WHITESIDE, Jenkin	10061	Dem-Rep	11	Tennessee	❌
PARKER, Nahum	7200	Dem-Rep	11	New Hampshire	❌
SMITH, John	8645	Dem-Rep	10	Ohio	❌
HOWLAND, Benjamin	4656	Dem-Rep	10	Rhode Island	❌
MACLAY, Samuel	5890	Dem-Rep	10	Pennsylvania	❌
KITCHELL, Aaron	5303	Dem-Rep	10	New Jersey	❌
SMITH, Israel	8639	Dem-Rep	9	Vermont	❌
POTTER, Samuel John	7559	Dem-Rep	8	Rhode Island	❌
BLOODWORTH, Timothy	800	Dem-Rep	6	North Carolina	❌
LLOYD, James	5725	Federalist	6	Maryland	❌
GUNN, James	3877	Federalist	6	Georgia	❌
HENRY, John	4333	Federalist	5	Maryland	❌
HUNTER, John	4753	Dem-Rep	5	South Carolina	❌
TATTNALL, Josiah	9189	Dem-Rep	5	Georgia	❌
STANTON, Joseph, Jr.	8845	Anti-Admin.	2	Rhode Island	❌
ELMER, Jonathan	2943	Pro-Admin.	1	New Jersey	❌

This was generated from python check_missing --chamber Senate --min 1

[aaronrudkin]

Located this page on the U.S. Senate history website indicating that almost all of our missing Senators in fact have no recorded depiction.

Note that some of the Senators on that U.S. Senate list actually do have depictions; e.g. Nathan Smith Robert Carter Nicholas Robert Henry Goldsborough David Stewart

I have emailed the Senate Photo Historian seeking James Diament Westcott's portrait in case they have one.

[aaronrudkin]

I received a reply from Heather Moore at the U.S. Senate Historical Office RE: James Diament Westcott;

Hello.

No, unfortunately we do not have an image of him. We thought we did, but later research revealed it was actually an image of his son. We removed the photo from the senator’s entry in the online Congressional Biographical Directory, but did not update our list of “missing” senators.

If you do happen to find an image of him, please do let us know as we would be interested in obtaining a copy as well.

Having received this reply, I feel comfortable noting that every remaining Senator here has no known photo. I will close this issue for now and re-open if there's any development in the exciting world of 200 year old portraits.