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

7 rows where party = "Whig" and state = "DE" sorted by full_name

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chamber 2

state 1

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
R000379 George Rodney George Rodney   Whig DE House 0 1841-05-31 1845-03-03 0   [] 409349       George B. Rodney   1803-04-02 M 3 1845-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
H000825 John Houston John Houston   Whig DE House 0 1845-12-01 1851-03-03 0   [] 405672       John W. Houston   1814-05-04 M 4 1851-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
M000767 John Milligan John Milligan   Whig DE House 0 1831-12-05 1839-03-03 0   [] 407745       John J. Milligan   1795-12-10 M 5 1839-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
W000043 John Wales John Wales   Whig DE Senate   1849-12-03 1851-03-03 0   [] 411223       John Wales   1783-07-31 M 1 1851-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
S000760 Presley Spruance Presley Spruance   Whig DE Senate   1847-12-06 1853-03-03 0   [] 410227       Presley Spruance   1785-09-11 M 2 1853-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
B000251 Richard Bayard Richard Bayard   Whig DE Senate   1836-06-17 1845-03-03 0   [] 401245       Richard H. Bayard   1796-09-26 M 2 1845-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
C000499 Thomas Clayton Thomas Clayton   Whig DE Senate   1815-12-04 1847-03-03 0   [] 402636       Thomas Clayton     M 6 1847-03-03 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);