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US Legislators by Plural (formerly OpenStates)

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.

Data overview

Entities:
Total27,732
Searchable12,561
Targets12,370
Entity types:
People12,370
Positions191
Countries:
United States of America12,561
Publisher:Plural · United States non-official source

Plural provides data and functionnality to track and collaborate around public policy.

From their website:

We help you shape policy together, so you can shape the future. It starts with providing the most complete information about the policies that impact us.

OpenStates became part of Plural in 2021.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
Information:open.pluralpolicy.com
Source data:github.com · YAML
Coverage:added · frequency: weekly
Last processed:2025-04-28 01:13:04
Last change:

Bulk download

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 nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities13.92 MB
names.txtTarget names text file555.04 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format11.24 MB
source.zipSource data18.78 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON20 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV3.14 MB

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Using the API

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:

Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Jamie BarluceaPersonUnited States of America
Adriana Gutiérrez ColónPersonUnited States of America
Chris MeasmerPersonUnited States of America
Rey FigueroaPersonUnited States of America
Pellé SantiagoPersonUnited States of America
Fernando Sanabria ColónPersonUnited States of America
Dan GoughnourPersonUnited States of America
Gaby GonzálezPersonUnited States of America
Brenda Pérez SotoPersonUnited States of America
Héctor Sánchez ÁlvarezPersonUnited States of America
Adrián González CostaPersonUnited States of America
Lane TaylorPersonUnited States of America
Amy RomanoPersonUnited States of America
Lilly RosasPersonUnited States of America
Wilmer Reyes BerríosPersonUnited States of America
US Legislators by Plural (formerly OpenStates) - OpenSanctions