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text: ```The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress na one book wey get information about all the people wey don serve for the United States Congress and the Continental Congress wey dey before am. Dem also include Delegates from territories and the District of Columbia and Resident Commissioners from the Philippines and Puerto Rico.

The online edition still get guide on where you fit find research collections (list of places wey get papers, letters, and other things wey belong to the members) and bibliography of published works wey concern the members. You fit see these resources for the member's page for the website.

Charles Lanman, wey be author, journalist, and former secretary to Daniel Webster, gather the first set of biographies of former and present members of Congress for hin "Dictionary of Congress" wey dem publish for 1859. Lanman bin want make hin "Dictionary of the United States Congress" dey useful for the present Members of Congress like how the "Congressional Directory" dey useful now.

For 1864, the House of Representatives and the Senate approve make dem publish updated version of Lanman's "Dictionary of Congress" through the Government Printing Office. For the late 1860s, Congress give Benjamin Perley Poore, wey be journalist and clerk of the Senate Committee on Printing and Records, the work to prepare "Congressional Directory" with biographical sketches and reference information like the one wey dey "Dictionary of Congress".

Answers to the questions:
1. Wetin Charles Lanman dey do for work?
2. Wetin e create?
3. When dem publish am?
4. Wetin year congress approve updated version?
5. For the 1860s, who continue the work to make congressional dictionary?
6. Who first publish Lanman's dictionary?
7. Wetin be the Biographical dictionary of the United States Congress?
8. Dem include delegates from territories inside am?
9. Which ones?
10. Who else dey inside the dictionary?
11. E dey available online?
12. Dem include correspondence too?``` <response>: ```1. author, journalist, and former secretary to Daniel Webster
2. Dictionary of Congress
3. 1859
4. For 1864
5. Benjamin Perley Poore
6. J. B. Lippincott & Co.
7. dictionary of Congress members
8. yes
9. unknown
10. Resident Commissioners from the Philippines and Puerto Rico.
11. yes
12. no``` 