Mapping Congress: Roll Call Votes of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1862-1865 (ICPSR 36109)

Version Date: Aug 5, 2015

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Principal Investigator(s):
LaDale Winling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Department of History; Matthew Vaughan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36109.v1

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Summary

This data collection is a sub-project associated with ICPSR #67, Roll Call Voting Records for the Confederate Congresses, 1862-1865, and represents an investigation of the voting records of representatives and senators of the Congress of the Confederacy. The project was conducted for use in a geographic information system, in order to understand the relationship between geography and public policy during the American Civil War.

Citation

Winling, LaDale, and Vaughan, Matthew. Mapping Congress: Roll Call Votes of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1862-1865. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-08-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36109.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

Congressional District

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1862 -- 1865

Date of Collection

2014-01-01 -- 2014-01-07

Data Collection Notes

  1. This collection is being released exactly as it was provided to ICPSR. Please refer to the related data collection, ICPSR #67, Roll Call Votes of the Congress of the Confederate States of America for further information.

  2. A unique identifier, MCCJOINID, was created for each election and roll call record, based on Congress, chamber, state, and district or class. Please see the Mapping Congress Guide to Confederate Data Document found in the zip package for further information.

  3. For additional information on the Mapping Congress project, as well as to obtain shapefiles and further data, please visit the Mapping Congress Web site.

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Sample

The data were not sampled; this collection contains complete data from the Confederate Journal.

Universe

All voting members of both chambers of the three Confederate Congresses in the United States in the period 1861-1865.

Data Source

Martis, Kenneth C., "The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865."

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Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2015-08-05

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Winling, LaDale, and Matthew Vaughan. Mapping Congress: Roll Call Votes of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1862-1865. ICPSR36109-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-08-05. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36109.v1
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