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

6 rows where party = "Jackson" and state = "IL" sorted by full_name

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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
S000474 Charles Slade Charles Slade   Jackson IL House 1 1833-12-02 1835-03-03 0   [] 412097       Charles Slade     M 2 1835-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
B000058 David Baker David Baker   Jackson IL Senate   1830-01-01 1831-03-03 0   [] 401063       David J. Baker   1792-09-07 M 1 1831-03-03 1 0 0 0 0
K000006 Elias Kane Elias Kane   Jackson IL Senate   1825-12-05 1835-12-31 0   [] 406180       Elias Kane   1794-06-07 M 2 1835-12-31 0 0 0 0 0
M000550 John McLean John McLean   Jackson IL Senate   1817-12-01 1831-03-03 0   [] 407542       John McLean (Illinois politician)   1791-02-04 M 3 1831-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
D000535 Joseph Duncan Joseph Duncan   Jackson IL House 3 1827-12-03 1835-03-03 0   [] 403642       Joseph Duncan (politician)   1794-02-22 M 5 1835-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
E000283 William Ewing William Ewing   Jackson IL Senate   1835-12-07 1837-03-03 0   [] 403961       William Lee D. Ewing   1795-08-31 M 1 1837-03-03 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);