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 party = "Unionist" and state = "MD" sorted by full_name

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chamber 2

state 1

party 1

  • Unionist · 5 ✖

is_current 1

  • 0 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
K000103 Anthony Kennedy Anthony Kennedy   Unionist MD Senate   1857-12-07 1863-03-03 0   [] 406271       Anthony Kennedy (Maryland politician)   1810-12-21 M 2 1863-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
C000058 Charles Calvert Charles Calvert   Unionist MD House 6 1861-07-04 1863-03-03 0   [] 402217       Charles Benedict Calvert   1808-08-24 M 2 1863-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
L000179 Cornelius Leary Cornelius Leary   Unionist MD House 3 1861-07-04 1863-03-03 0   [] 406681       Cornelius Leary   1813-10-22 M 2 1863-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
M000275 Henry May Henry May   Unionist MD House 4 1853-12-05 1863-03-03 0   [] 407293       Henry May (American politician)   1816-02-13 M 6 1863-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
C000907 John Crisfield John Crisfield   Unionist MD House 1 1847-12-06 1863-03-03 0   [] 403019       John W. Crisfield   1806-11-08 M 9 1863-03-03 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);