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 = "Whig" and state = "MS" 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
B000503 John Black John Black   Whig MS Senate   1832-11-12 1838-01-22 0   [] 412016       John Black (Mississippi politician)   1800-08-11 M 2 1838-01-22 0 0 0 0 0
H000482 John Henderson John Henderson   Whig MS Senate   1839-12-02 1845-03-03 0   [] 405345       John Henderson (Mississippi politician)   1797-02-28 M 2 1845-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
T000308 Patrick Tompkins Patrick Tompkins   Whig MS House 3 1847-12-06 1849-03-03 0   [] 410881       Patrick W. Tompkins     M 2 1849-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
P000511 Seargent Prentiss Seargent Prentiss   Whig MS House -1 1837-09-04 1839-03-03 0   [] 408896       Seargent Smith Prentiss   1808-09-30 M 2 1839-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
W000742 Thomas Word Thomas Word   Whig MS House -1 1837-09-04 1839-03-03 0   [] 412122       Thomas J. Word   1805-02-06 M 2 1839-03-03 0 0 0 0 0
B000872 Walker Brooke Walker Brooke   Whig MS Senate   1852-01-01 1853-03-03 0   [] 401829       Walker Brooke   1813-12-25 M 1 1853-03-03 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);