congress_members

All current and historical members of Congress (12,700+) from the congress-legislators project. Includes bioguide_id (universal key), party, state, chamber, and cross-reference IDs for OpenSecrets, FEC, GovTrack, and more.

Data license: Public Domain (U.S. Government data) · Data source: Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API

5 rows where chamber = "House", party = "Democrat" and state = "SD" sorted by full_name

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state 1

party 1

  • Democrat · 5 ✖

is_current 1

  • 0 5

chamber 1

  • House · 5 ✖
bioguide_id first_name last_name full_name ▼ nickname party state chamber district first_served last_served is_current opensecrets_id fec_ids govtrack_id thomas_id votesmart_id lis_id wikipedia_id ballotpedia_id birthday gender terms_count served_until trade_count speech_count bills_sponsored vote_count fec_total_received
D000234 Frank Denholm Frank Denholm   Democrat SD House 1 1971-01-21 1975-01-03 0   [] 403372 00286     Frank E. Denholm   1923-11-29 M 3 1975-01-03 0 0 43 0 0
H000584 Fred Hildebrandt Fred Hildebrandt   Democrat SD House 1 1933-03-09 1939-01-03 0   [] 405446       Fred H. Hildebrandt   1874-08-02 M 4 1939-01-03 0 0 0 0 0
G000037 Harry Gandy Harry Gandy   Democrat SD House 3 1915-12-06 1921-03-03 0   [] 404413       Harry Gandy   1881-08-13 M 4 1921-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
H001037 Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Stephanie Herseth Sandlin   Democrat SD House 0 2004-06-03 2011-01-03 0 N00024773 ["H2SD00092"] 400443 01760 48367   Stephanie Herseth Sandlin   1970-12-03 F 4 2011-01-03 0 241 114 4985 2783225
W000299 Theodore Werner Theodore Werner   Democrat SD House 2 1933-03-09 1937-01-03 0   [] 411463       Theodore B. Werner   1892-06-02 M 3 1937-01-03 0 0 0 0 0

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CREATE TABLE congress_members (
    bioguide_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
    first_name TEXT,
    last_name TEXT,
    full_name TEXT,
    nickname TEXT,
    party TEXT,
    state TEXT,
    chamber TEXT,
    district INTEGER,
    first_served TEXT,
    last_served TEXT,
    is_current INTEGER,
    opensecrets_id TEXT,
    fec_ids TEXT,
    govtrack_id INTEGER,
    thomas_id TEXT,
    votesmart_id INTEGER,
    lis_id TEXT,
    wikipedia_id TEXT,
    ballotpedia_id TEXT,
    birthday TEXT,
    gender TEXT,
    terms_count INTEGER,
    served_until TEXT
, trade_count INTEGER DEFAULT 0, speech_count INTEGER DEFAULT 0, bills_sponsored INTEGER DEFAULT 0, vote_count INTEGER DEFAULT 0, fec_total_received INTEGER DEFAULT 0);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_name ON congress_members(last_name, first_name);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_party ON congress_members(party);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_state ON congress_members(state);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_chamber ON congress_members(chamber);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_current ON congress_members(is_current);
CREATE INDEX idx_cm_current_trades ON congress_members(is_current DESC, trade_count DESC);