Talk:United States congressional delegations from Maryland

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[edit] Merger

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress#List of United States Senators from X - For a discussion about merging over 100 US Congress-related articles.

[edit] U.S. House year blocks

Someone recently came in and expanded the U.S. House section, but when I was going through existing member pages, I noticed that some of these years that the blocks encompass are off by 1-2 years. So if someone could clean it up, that would be great. --tomf688(talk) 02:31, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

Can you give an example of some that are off? --Golbez 02:36, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
Rogers Morton served until 1971, but it shows him serving through 1973; and D'Alesandro served from 1939-47, but it shows him serving until 49 (just to name two that I can see... I'm sure there are others). I think most of the problems come from people who resigned or died during their terms. --tomf688(talk) 03:19, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
To be honest, all 50 state pages are rough drafts that I put up until I could get better reference material. I plan to soon, then I'll redo them. However, in the case of Morton, do you know if he ran for reelection in 1970? Because if he did, and if he won, then he would have been sworn in Jan 3 1971 - as part of the 92nd congress. He could then have resigned to be Secretary of the Interior, and it's possible they never held a special election to replace him. That's possibly what happened. I won't know til I get my reference book. Same deal with D'Alesandro, though - He was sworn in on Jan 3 1947 (or whatever the swear-in date was back then) as part of the 80th congress, and he died during his term, and it's possible again that he was not replaced. He is certainly part of the 80th congress, so there's no error there. That may be the cause of most of the supposed errors. --Golbez 06:02, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure successors were elected. Gladys Noon Spellmen's term has it going through 1983, but Hoyer was elected in a special election in May of 1981. By the way: D'Alesandro and Morton resigned to assume other positions (Mayor of Baltimore and Sec of the Interior). --tomf688(talk) 02:50, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
Spellmen is a good example of a problem with these tables - Not readable enough. Put a straightedge up to the screen, and you'll see that the line denoting the end of her term is slightly aboe the end of the 1981-1983 congress, and that Hoyer's line thus begins during that congress. However, this is difficult to see without a ruler. That's why these should only be taken as general graphs; if you want specific info, click the names. --Golbez 04:46, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

Should be more than slightly above, considering that she resigned at the very beginning of the Congress. :) --tomf688(talk) 02:31, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Sadly, there's no way to tell the table where to start the next cell. I could make all the cells wider and try it that way, but it would probably just compress the unused bits. --Golbez 07:01, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Super Table

Guys, I have never seen such a useful table! Certainly nothing as useful and visual in a print form. Keep working at it, it is worth it. I would like to see the House go back even further (to satisfy my interest in the Blair/Byron dynasties). Paul, in Saudi 16:42, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words :) As I keep saying, I plan to do it once I have a better reference book. The reason it doesn't go back very far is simple - it would be a large table. Lemme explain that - With many of the old states that stretch back that far, it's essentially two tables - pre-Civil War and post war. You'll notice I haven't done many of the northern colonial states purely for that reason, the southern ones were much easier because there was the gap there caused by the war. :) I hope to get back to this within a few weeks. --Golbez 17:52, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)