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

9 rows where party = "Conservative" sorted by full_name

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state 4

chamber 2

party 1

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is_current 1

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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
P000292 Charles Phelps Charles Phelps   Conservative MD House 3 1865-12-04 1869-03-03 0   [] 408692       Charles E. Phelps   1833-05-01 M 3 1869-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
B000627 George Booker George Booker   Conservative VA House 4 1869-03-04 1871-03-03 0   [] 401592       George Booker   1821-12-05 M 2 1871-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
B001026 James Buckley James Buckley   Conservative NY Senate   1971-01-21 1977-01-03 0   [] 401976 01294     James L. Buckley   1923-03-09 M 2 1977-01-03 0 0 0 0 0
G000067 James Garland James Garland   Conservative VA House 12 1835-12-07 1841-03-03 0   [] 404440       James Garland (Virginia politician)   1791-06-06 M 4 1841-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
G000162 James Gibson James Gibson   Conservative VA House 8 1869-03-04 1871-03-03 0   [] 404529       James K. Gibson   1812-02-18 M 2 1871-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
M000507 Lewis McKenzie Lewis McKenzie   Conservative VA House 7 1861-07-04 1871-03-03 0   [] 407502       Lewis McKenzie   1810-10-07 M 6 1871-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
B000722 Nathaniel Boyden Nathaniel Boyden   Conservative NC House 6 1847-12-06 1869-03-03 0   [] 401682       Nathaniel Boyden   1796-08-16 M 12 1869-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
R000248 Robert Ridgway Robert Ridgway   Conservative VA House 5 1867-03-04 1871-03-03 0   [] 409224       Robert Ridgway (congressman)   1823-04-21 M 3 1871-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
M000784 William Milnes William Milnes   Conservative VA House 6 1869-03-04 1871-03-03 0   [] 407762       William Milnes Jr.   1827-12-08 M 2 1871-03-03 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);