Contact Your Legislators

Contact Your Legislators

U.S. Senators & Representatives | Texas Senators & Representatives

If you are not sure which Legislator represents your district, you can find these district numbers on your voter registration card, or consult these sites:

U.S. House of Representative Write your Representative page. This page has a look-up feature by zip code to identify your representative. (Zip + 4 code needed)
The American Library Association's "Issues and Advocacy" section offers this handy page which makes it easy to find contact information for Congress and the Executive Branch, including lists of members of particular committees.
Project Vote-Smart. You can find U.S. and state legislators by zip code here, as well as information on upcoming elections in your districts. (Zip + 4 code needed)
Who Represents Me? Texas Legislative Council provides this look-up by county, city zip code, address.
Texas Senators. Official Senate directory and look-up by zip code.

The first three sites above should be consulted if you are looking for non-Texas legislators; the last three can be used if you are looking for legislators representing other parts of the state than South Texas and San Antonio.

Some tips when e-mailing representatives:

send individual messages; "spamming" makes a bad impression and your message may be ignored
include your home address, to be sure your representative knows you are from their state or district (this is not always apparent from your email address)
The Univ. of North Texas Library offers this page of tips: "How to Write a Letter to Your Legislator"
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a page of information and tips: "Contacting Congress (and Other US Policy Makers)"
and the American Library Association's PDF "Library Advocate's Handbook" includes a section on "Dealing with Legislators"

Author: Kathleen L. Amen • Email: kamen@stmarytx.edu
URL: http://library.stmarytx.edu/acadlib/doc/contact.htm
Last updated • links checked March, 2007

Louis J. Blume Library • St. Mary's University
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