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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:
Total24,867
Searchable11,662
Targets11,471
Entity types:
People11,471
Positions191
Countries:
United States11,662
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 · update frequency: weekly
Last processed:2024-12-02 01:13:03
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 entities12.5 MB
names.txtTarget names text file484.05 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format10.41 MB
source.zipSource data18.55 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON17.8 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV2.88 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
Hunter SmithPersonUnited States
Charlie HartzPersonUnited States
Jackie TerribilePersonUnited States
Don GaetzPersonUnited States
Melanie Ross LevinPersonUnited States
Ikaika OldsPersonUnited States
Luke RankinPersonUnited States
Mitch RosenwaldPersonUnited States
Rebecca EdgeworthPersonUnited States
Hamilton GrantPersonUnited States
Carlisle KennedyPersonUnited States
Bill ConerlyPersonUnited States
Jonathan WingardPersonUnited States
Matt CommonsPersonUnited States
Meg WeinbergerPersonUnited States
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