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The WP made the data behind its article publicly accessible here. Thought I'd add this here in case it was useful. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 17:57, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Playing with the formatting of the table

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Playing around here with some tweaks, e.g. accessibility bits, linking things, sorting names, playing with column widths, and not abbreviating states. Also, the "notes on identity" is odd, since it's currently mostly "what other high offices did they hold", so changed to that. Pictures would also be nice, though I'm not sure that we have them for the ones that didn't become VP/Pres? Also thinking: a histogram of how many slaveholders/prior slaveholders were in office per year, and a map of which states/areas were represented thusly? That might be a lot of work. --PresN 21:40, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On images, see Noyes Barber of the 20th Congress, for example, who has no image. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 22:47, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
U.S. congressional slaveholders
Name State Congressional district
or Senator 		First year in Congress Last year in Congress Congress numbers
served in 		Other positions held Ref.
William Anderson Pennsylvania 1st 1809 1819 11–13, 15
John C. Breckinridge Kentucky 8th,
Senator 		1851 1861 32, 33, 37 U.S. vice president [1]
Aaron Burr New York Senator 1791 1797 2–4 U.S. vice president [2]
John C. Calhoun Sout Carolina 6th,
Senator 		1810 1850 13–15, 22–31 U.S. vice president [3]
William Henry Harrison Ohio 1st,
Senator 		1816 1828 14, 15, 19, 20 U.S. president [4]
Andrew Jackson Tennessee At-large
Senator 		1796 1823 4, 5, 18, 19 U.S. president [4]
  1. ^ Klotter, James C. (1986). The Breckinridges of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. p.43
  2. ^ Burr, Sherri. "Aaron Burr Jr. and John Pierre Burr: A Founding Father and his Abolitionist Son". slavery.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
  3. ^ Mosso, Kate (May 16, 2019). "Downtown Charleston protest over statue of slave owner, former Vice President gets heated". WCIV (ABCNews4).
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference gvsu was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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