Congress Age
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This folder contains the data behind the story Both Republicans And Democrats Have an Age Problem congress-terms.csv has an entry for every member of congress who served at any point during a particu...
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congress-terms | 1.38 MB | over 6 years ago | congress-terms |
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congress-terms
Schema
name | type | format |
---|---|---|
congress | integer | default |
chamber | string | default |
bioguide | string | default |
firstname | string | default |
middlename | string | default |
lastname | string | default |
suffix | string | default |
birthday | date | default |
state | string | default |
party | string | default |
incumbent | string | default |
termstart | date | default |
age | number | default |
Congress Age
This folder contains the data behind the story Both Republicans And Democrats Have an Age Problem
congress-terms.csv
has an entry for every member of congress who served at any point during a particular congress between January 1947 and Februrary 2014.
House membership data is from the @unitedstates project, with Congress meeting numbers added using code from GovTrack:
- https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators
- https://github.com/govtrack/govtrack.us-web/blob/master/us.py#L93
Senate membership data is mostly from the New York Times Congress API combined with birthdays from @unitedstates. (It does not include the birthday of Sen. Elmer Thomas.)
In addition, we added an incumbent
field to each record.
This dataset was scraped from FiveThirtyEight - congress-age