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:
Total25,514
Searchable11,480
Targets11,190
Entity types:
People11,190
Positions290
Countries:
United States11,480
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 Datasets
Information:open.pluralpolicy.com
Source data:github.com · YAML
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: weekly
Last processed:
2026-08-03 01:13:02 · v. 20260803011302-bxp
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 entities13.21 MB
names.txtTarget names text file556.53 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format9.52 MB
source.zipSource data19.54 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON18.98 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV2.65 MB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:

Recent additions 

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

AddedNameTypeCountries
Dan KigerPersonUnited States
Adam GoldwynPersonUnited States
Jackie LarsonPersonUnited States
George MargetasPersonUnited States
Grant PacePersonUnited States
Haseeb FatmiPersonUnited States
T. J. HardawayPersonUnited States
Brett LigonPersonUnited States
Chedrick GreenePersonUnited States
David WasingerPersonUnited States
Derek E BrownPersonUnited States
Stephen CoxPersonUnited States
Joe KellyPersonUnited States
Dave RustebakkePersonUnited States
Anna FergusonPersonUnited States
Code on GitHub