Official Congressional Directory

This article is about the directory to a single Congress since 1789. For the directory of every member since 1903, see Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
This article is about the directory to a single Congress since 1789. For the directory of photographs of members of each Congress since 1951, see Congressional Pictorial Directory.
Official Congressional Directory
AuthorUnited States Congress Joint Committee on Printing
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPolitical reference
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherUnited States Government Printing Office
Publication date
1789
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)

The Official Congressional Directory (also known as Congressional Directory) is the official directory of the United States Congress, prepared by the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) and published by the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) since 1887. Directories since the 41st Congress (1869–1871) are available online from the Government Publishing Office. Per federal statute (44 USC 721) the Directory is published and distributed during the first session of each new Congress.[1] It is a designated essential title distributed to Federal depository libraries and the current edition is available for purchase from GPO.

  1. ^ Congressional Directory: Main Page Archived 2009-04-30 at the Wayback Machine