Open data on state legislators in the United States of America.
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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 Datasets | ||||||
| Information: | open.pluralpolicy.com | ||||||
| Source data: | github.com · YAML | ||||||
| Tags: | list.pep | ||||||
| Coverage: | added · frequency: weekly | ||||||
| Last processed: | 2026-05-11 01:13:02 · v. 20260511011302-dfy | ||||||
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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 | 12.93 MB | |
names.txt | Target names text file | 555.3 KB | |
senzing.json | Senzing entity format | 9.62 MB | |
source.zip | Source data | 19.48 MB | |
targets.nested.json | Targets as nested JSON | 18.6 MB | |
targets.simple.csv | Targets as simplified CSV | 2.66 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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| David Wasinger | Person | United States | |
| Derek E Brown | Person | United States | |
| John Rodgers | Person | United States | |
| Stephen Cox | Person | United States | |
| Tim Griffin | Person | United States | |
| Kimberly Driscoll | Person | United States | |
| Keith G. Kautz | Person | United States | |
| Steve Marshall | Person | United States | |
| Alan Wilson | Person | United States | |
| Steve Marshall | Person | United States | |
| Nick Brown | Person | United States | |
| Jennifer Davenport | Person | United States | |
| Tim Griffin | Person | United States | |
| Joe Kelly | Person | United States | |
| Anna Ferguson | Person | United States |
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