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

8 rows where party = "Whig" and state = "AL" sorted by full_name

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is_current 1

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chamber 1

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
L000542 Francis Lyon Francis Lyon   Whig AL House 5 1835-12-07 1839-03-03 0   [] 407026       Francis S. Lyon   1800-02-25 M 3 1839-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
C000847 George Crabb George Crabb   Whig AL House 3 1837-09-04 1841-03-03 0   [] 402963       George W. Crabb   1804-02-22 M 3 1841-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
H000622 Henry Hilliard Henry Hilliard   Whig AL House 2 1845-12-01 1851-03-03 0   [] 405480       Henry W. Hilliard   1808-08-04 M 4 1851-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
A000012 James Abercrombie James Abercrombie   Whig AL House 2 1851-12-01 1855-03-03 0   [] 400675       James Abercrombie (congressman)     M 3 1855-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
D000221 James Dellet James Dellet   Whig AL House 1 1839-12-02 1845-03-03 0   [] 403363       James Dellet   1788-02-18 M 4 1845-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
L000129 Joab Lawler Joab Lawler   Whig AL House 3 1835-12-07 1839-03-03 0   [] 406634       Joab Lawler   1796-06-12 M 3 1839-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
G000106 John Gayle John Gayle   Whig AL House 1 1847-12-06 1849-03-03 0   [] 404478       John Gayle (Alabama politician)   1792-09-11 M 2 1849-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
A000166 William Alston William Alston   Whig AL House 1 1849-12-03 1851-03-03 0   [] 400821       William J. Alston   1800-12-31 M 2 1851-03-03 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);