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/fivethirtyeight/congress-resignations/

├ README.md

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├ data/congressional_resignations.csv

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└ datapackage.json

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README.md— documentation

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congressional_resignations

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Schema

name	type	format
member	string	default
party	string	default
district	string	default
congress	string	default
resignation date	string	default
reason	string	default
source	string	default
category	string	default

Data Files

File	Description	Size	Last modified	Download
congressional_resignations		56.4 kB	about 2 months ago	congressional_resignations

Files	Size	Format	Created	Updated	License	Source
1	56.4 kB	csv		about 2 months ago		FiveThirtyEight - Congress Resignations

Congressional Resignations

This folder contains data behind the story We’ve Never Seen Congressional Resignations Like This Before.

congressional_resignations.csv contains information about the 615 members of Congress who resigned or were removed from office from March 4, 1901 (the first day of the 57th Congress) through January 15, 2018, including the resigning member’s party and district, the date they resigned, the reason for their resignation and the source of the information about their resignation.

The reasons are categorized as follows:

Code	Category
`X`	Unwanted sexual contact
`A`	Consensual sex scandals
`B`	Other scandals
`C`	Other office
`D`	Private sector
`E`	Health/family
`F`	Other
`G`	Left early
`H`	Military service
`I`	Election overturned

This dataset was scraped from FiveThirtyEight - congress-resignations