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:
Total27,700
Searchable12,532
Targets12,341
Entity types:
People12,341
Positions191
Countries:
United States12,532
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:2025-10-27 01:13:01 · v. 20251027011301-kcg
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 entities13.91 MB
names.txtTarget names text file557.65 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format11.22 MB
source.zipSource data18.95 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON19.99 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV3.17 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
Bill BellPersonUnited States
Nathan BoylesPersonUnited States
Keishan ScottPersonUnited States
Steve BrunkPersonUnited States
Brian HodgersPersonUnited States
Kevin NorwoodPersonUnited States
Amanda ClintonPersonUnited States
Aletia TimmonsPersonUnited States
Lynda Zamora WilsonPersonUnited States
Joe GedeonPersonUnited States
Zach HallPersonUnited States
Ty MoorePersonUnited States
Lisa FieldPersonUnited States
Sue Rieke SmithPersonUnited States
Billie ButlerPersonUnited States
Code on GitHub