THIRD SESSION.] CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY, COMPILED FOR THE USE OF CONGRESS BY BEN: PERLEY POORE, CLERK OF PRINTING RECORDS FIRST EDITION. CORRECTED TO DECEMBER 9, 1878. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YE, R 1873. By BEN: PERLEY POORE, IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, AT WASHINGTON. THE CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY was published as a private enterprise from 1820 until 1864, inclusive, and copies were sold to Congress and to the Departments. It was sometimes two months after the commencement of a session before the first edition of the Directory was ready for delivery, and the work did not contain much of the varied information given in similar publications at the capitals of some of the States and at the seats of government in Europe. At the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, a joint resolution was passed unanimously ordering the compilation and publication of the Congressional Directory, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Public Printing. The joint committee, urged by Senators and Representatives to give additional value to the work, examined upward of twenty publications of a similar nature, and adopted several features-among them statistical sketches of members of Congress. The form of these statistical sketches, which met the approval of the joint committee, was that which they found in a publication entitled the "House of Commons," which has been published annually at London, in its present shape, since 1852, and it has since been used as a model in the compilation of the Congressional Directory. The statistical sketches give the Senator, Representative, or Delegate's full name; home post-office address; place and time of birth; early education; collegiate education, if any, with date of graduating; professional studies; profession or business; all public offices held, with dates of holding them; their vote on their last election to Congress; the name of their opponent; the politics of each, and the vote of each when the election was by the people. This information has been supplied by the members of Congress, in response to circulars sent them by direction of the Joint Committee on Public Printing, as it could not be obtained in any other way. No biographical work has ever given the politics of Congressmen, the names of their opponents when elected, or the votes given to each, although they have appeared at the close of each year in the valuable newspaper almanacs. Any person can obtain a copyright for a work by depositing a copy of the title-page with the Librarian of Congress and paying the stated fee. No attempt can be made to defend, under the copyright act, the plan of this Congressional Directory, as it is based on numerous European publications of a similar nature, some of them dating back many years; neither is the collection of biographies of a class of public men an original idea, as scores of such collections have been published within the present century. But for the statistical sketches, obtained from original sources by the compiler, the protection of the copyright act can be claimed. It will, however, only be invoked when this original matter is republished imperfectly for gain. It was to prevent this that the Joint Committee on Public Printing directed the compiler to secure a copyright. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Calendar for 1878. Senators and Representatives, by States, alphabetically arranged. Standing, Select, and Joint Committees of the Senate. Standing, Select, and Joint Committees of the House. Officers of the Senate and Senate Committee Clerks. Officers of the House and House Committee Clerks. Official Reporters Library of Congress. Government Telegraph. Places of Amusement. United States Postal Regulations. Washington City Post-Office.. The Capitol. The Architect of the Capitol. The Botanical Garden. City Directory..... The Executive Mansion. The Department of State. The Treasury Department. The War Department.. The Navy Department The Post-Office Department. The Interior Department.. ... 111-113 The Department of Justice. The Department of Agriculture. The Government Printing-Office. The Treasury Department. The War Department.. The Navy Department The Interior Department. The Post-Office Department. The Department of Justice The Department of Agriculture... International Exhibition at Paris. Southern Claims Commission The Supreme Court. The Court of Claims 113 IT4 .115-119 119-120 120-121 121-122 .122-123 123-124 124 124 125 .126-127 Foreign Legations in the United States United States Legations abroad.. Joint Commission.... Consulates, Consulates-General, Commercial Agencies, and Consular Clerks.. The District Government. The Washington Monument The District Judiciary. The Capitol Police...... The Smithsonian Institution. Corcoran Gallery of Art... Places of Divine Worship Railroad Time-Tables Diagram of the Senate and Location of Senators.. Diagram of the House and Location of Members. |