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 federal cross-reference IDs (FEC, Library of Congress THOMAS/LIS).

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

12 rows where party = "Liberal Republican" sorted by full_name

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state 8

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 fec_ids thomas_id lis_id birthday gender terms_count served_until trade_count speech_count bills_sponsored vote_count fec_total_received fec_ie_for fec_ie_against
B000579 Alexander Boarman Alexander Boarman Aleck Liberal Republican LA House 4 1871-03-04 1873-03-03 0 []     1839-12-10 M 2 1873-03-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S000151 Carl Schurz Carl Schurz   Liberal Republican MO Senate   1869-03-04 1875-03-03 0 []     1829-03-02 M 2 1875-03-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S001068 Charles Sumner Charles Sumner   Liberal Republican MA Senate   1851-12-01 1875-03-03 0 []     1811-01-06 M 5 1875-03-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B000864 Frederick Bromberg Frederick Bromberg   Liberal Republican AL House 1 1873-12-01 1875-03-03 0 []     1837-06-19 M 2 1875-03-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S000341 George Sheridan George Sheridan   Liberal Republican LA House -1 1873-12-01 1875-03-03 0 []     1840-02-22 M 2 1875-03-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
F000129 Gustavus Finkelnburg Gustavus Finkelnburg   Liberal Republican MO House 2 1869-03-04 1873-03-03 0 []     1837-04-06 M 3 1873-03-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B000527 James Blair James Blair   Liberal Republican MO House 8 1871-03-04 1873-03-03 0 []     1825-01-01 M 2 1873-03-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
E000072 John Edwards John Edwards   Liberal Republican AR House 3 1871-03-04 1873-03-03 0 []     1805-10-24 M 2 1873-03-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
F000077 Reuben Fenton Reuben Fenton   Liberal Republican NY Senate   1853-12-05 1875-03-03 0 []     1819-07-04 M 4 1875-03-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
T000286 Thomas Tipton Thomas Tipton   Liberal Republican NE Senate   1867-03-04 1875-03-03 0 []     1817-08-05 M 2 1875-03-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
H001027 William Hynes William Hynes   Liberal Republican AR House -1 1873-12-01 1875-03-03 0 []     1843-03-31 M 2 1875-03-03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S000747 William Sprague William Sprague   Liberal Republican RI Senate   1863-12-07 1875-03-03 0 []     1830-09-12 M 3 1875-03-03 0 0 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,
    fec_ids TEXT,
    thomas_id TEXT,
    lis_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, fec_ie_for INTEGER DEFAULT 0, fec_ie_against 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);