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

4 rows where chamber = "Senate", party = "Democrat" and state = "AK" sorted by full_name

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Suggested facets: nickname, opensecrets_id, fec_ids, thomas_id, ballotpedia_id, terms_count, speech_count, bills_sponsored, vote_count, fec_total_received, first_served (date), last_served (date), birthday (date), served_until (date), fec_ids (array)

state 1

party 1

  • Democrat · 4 ✖

is_current 1

  • 0 4

chamber 1

  • Senate · 4 ✖
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
B000201 Edward Bartlett Edward Bartlett Bob Democrat AK Senate   1945-01-03 1968-12-11 0   [] 401200       Bob Bartlett   1904-04-20 M 4 1968-12-11 0 0 0 0 0
G000508 Ernest Gruening Ernest Gruening   Democrat AK Senate   1959-01-07 1969-01-03 0   [] 404853       Ernest Gruening   1887-02-06 M 2 1969-01-03 0 0 0 0 0
B001265 Mark Begich Mark Begich   Democrat AK Senate   2009-01-06 2015-01-03 0 N00029901 ["S8AK00090"] 412326 01898 79426 S319 Mark Begich Mark Begich 1962-03-30 M 2 2015-01-03 0 497 181 1839 20823892
G000388 Maurice Gravel Maurice Gravel Mike Democrat AK Senate   1969-01-03 1981-01-03 0   [] 404738 01343     Mike Gravel   1930-05-13 M 3 1981-01-03 0 0 187 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);