User:Wolfgang8741/everypolitician

Useful for every_politician USA. Please add more leads or links as you find them.

Identifying Legislative Bio Databases for possible property proposals as authorities of historic legislators for US States - looking via search > state library > then state archive:

   Scope: Current US Fed and State as a whole, may expand to local - public domain data:
   * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Person#OpenStates_Person_ID
   
   Scope: National - Congress
   * US Congress Bio ID (P1157)

   State "blue books" ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_book are possible texts to reference, but this is looking for data to integrate as linked open data for bidirectional linking.

   Alabama - 
   Alaska - 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature (Q111431375) proposal - https://akleg.gov/100years/legislature.php?id=-1 
   Arizona Arizona State Legislators: Then & Now (Q111018056) - Property exits - Arizona State Legislators: Then & Now ID (P10545) proposal
   Arkansas
   California
   Colorado - possible lead - http://www.leg.state.co.us/lcs/leghist.nsf/LegHistory.xsp (linked at bottom of https://leg.colorado.gov/legislators) as http://www.leg.state.co.us/lcs/leghist.nsf/DocView.xsp?documentId=D558981666F9EB8E872578E2005D2F94
   Connecticut - possible lead - https://ctstatelibrary.org/cga-members-record/
   Delaware
   Florida
   Georgia
   Hawaii
   Idaho
   Illinois
   Indiana
   Iowa
   Kansas - possible lead, insufficient in current format needs id for person - https://kslib.info/BusinessDirectoryii.aspx
   Kentucky
   Louisiana
   Maine - possible lead, insufficient in current format needs id for person - https://legislature.maine.gov/9428 response stated 6-12 months from Feb 2022 a new database may have features needed
   Maryland - possible lead, but insufficient in current form to link id per person, offers wide range of government, but varying level of resolution - https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/html/mdgov.html
   Massachusetts - possible lead - https://www.mass.gov/info-details/state-library-resources-on-past-and-current-massachusetts-political-figures
   Michigan - proposal submitted - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Person#Michigan_Legislative_Bio_ID
   Minnesota - Minnesota Legislators Past & Present (Q111017101) -  Property exists - Minnesota legislator ID (P3160)
   Mississippi
   Missouri - possible lead, insufficient in current form for linking - https://s1.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/historicallistings/molego - more broad lead for gov figures https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history
   Montana
   Nebraska - possible lead - http://nebraskaccess.ne.gov/bluebookbios.asp - some scans include photos of legislatures
   Nevada - possible lead, insufficient in the current form, lacks individual pages, ids, search query only - https://www.leg.state.nv.us/dbtw-wpd/LegSim.htm from https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Division/research/leginfo/ 
   New Hampshire
   New Jersey - possible lead, scanned manuals of the legislature (1872-1922) - https://www.njstatelib.org/research_library/legal_resources/historical_laws/legislative_manual/
   New Mexico
   New York
   North Carolina
   North Dakota
   Ohio
   Oklahoma - lead Oklahoma Vertical Files (Biography and Subject files),  stated "coming soon" - listed at bottom of https://libraries.ok.gov/law-legislative-reference/
   Oregon - no linkable system found, but archive has digital records - https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/Pages/records/governors_guides.aspx and early oregonians database https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/personProfileSearch.do?earlyOregonian=true&searchReset=true
   Pennsylvania
   Rhode Island
   South Carolina
   South Dakota - Property exits - South Dakota legislator ID (P3229) needs cleanup
   Tennessee
   Texas - possible lead, but not in a digital format - https://www.tsl.texas.gov/arc/electionreg.html also Twitter list - https://www.lrl.texas.gov/legeLeaders/members/twitterDirectory.cfm
   Utah - possible lead, site under construction - https://onlinelibrary.utah.gov/utah/government/
   Vermont
   Virginia - emailed 10 Mar 2022 - Property Exists for house Virginia House of Delegates ID (P9443) - Burgesses and Delegates (Q111182504) - https://history.house.virginia.gov/members as https://history.house.virginia.gov/members/9784 - capitol locations as https://history.house.virginia.gov/capitols - great note about reliability of dates and info due to age, breadth, and historical records in general.
   Washington - lead PDFs for Washington legislature - https://leg.wa.gov/History/Legislative/Pages/default.aspx as (https://leg.wa.gov/History/Legislative/Documents/HistoryOfTheLeg.pdf | https://leg.wa.gov/History/Legislative/Documents/HistoftheLeg1965-82.pdf | https://leg.wa.gov/History/Legislative/Documents/MembersOfLeg2019.pdf | https://leg.wa.gov/History/Legislative/Documents/PoliticalPioneers.pdf ) and phone/pictoral directories scanned as PDFs which include much more information, none is in a format for a property - https://leg.wa.gov/History/Legislative/Pages/PhonePictorialDirectories.aspx - also Women in the Legislature ID (P10029) with mix'n'match 4853
   West Virginia
   Wisconsin - emailed 25 Feb 2022 - possible lead, structure not conducive to property, limited history to 2013-present. does offer both senate and house- https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/districts
   Wyoming Wyoming Legislator Database (Q111017706) - possible lead, https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislators/historical as https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislators///1

@Oravrattas: - Given the work on the US in every politician -thought you might like these possible candidates for external IDs for more U.S. states. This is a work in progress for identifying external IDs legislator histories.