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Open data on state legislators in the United States of America.
This dataset includes members of US state legislatures and executives from the OpenStates project.
The OpenStates project is building and maintaining a fleet of scrapers to collect data on legislators in the United States of America. Their dataset includes data on legislators at the federal, state and local levels.
The dataset is available under a CC-0 license, making it entirely free to use.
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| Publisher: | Plural · United States non-official source Plural provides data and functionnality to track and collaborate around public policy. From their website:
OpenStates became part of Plural in 2021. | ||||||
| Collections: | in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Core Data | ||||||
| Information: | open.pluralpolicy.com | ||||||
| Source data: | github.com · YAML | ||||||
| Tags: | list.pep | ||||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: weekly | ||||||
| Last processed: | 2025-09-01 01:13:01 · v. 20250901011301-lgt | ||||||
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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.
| File name | Export type | Size | |
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entities.ftm.json | FollowTheMoney entities | 13.93 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 557.4 KB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 11.25 MB | |
source.zip | Source data | 18.95 MB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 20 MB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 3.17 MB |
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You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.
| Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine: | |
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint: | |
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint: |
The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:
| Added | Name | Type | Countries |
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| Bill Bell | Person | United States of America | |
| Billie Butler | Person | United States of America | |
| Zach Hall | Person | United States of America | |
| Ty Moore | Person | United States of America | |
| Lisa Field | Person | United States of America | |
| Nathan Boyles | Person | United States of America | |
| Keishan Scott | Person | United States of America | |
| Steve Brunk | Person | United States of America | |
| Sue Rieke Smith | Person | United States of America | |
| Brian Hodgers | Person | United States of America | |
| Kevin Norwood | Person | United States of America | |
| Amanda Clinton | Person | United States of America | |
| Aletia Timmons | Person | United States of America | |
| Lynda Zamora Wilson | Person | United States of America | |
| Joe Gedeon | Person | United States of America |
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