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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:
Total27,732
Searchable12,529
Targets12,338
Entity types:
People12,338
Positions191
Countries:
United States of America12,529
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 · frequency: weekly
Last processed:2025-04-14 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 entities13.87 MB
names.txtTarget names text file552.4 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format11.2 MB
source.zipSource data18.73 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON19.96 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV3.13 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
Tim CzmowskiPersonUnited States of America
Terry NelsonPersonUnited States of America
T.J. BrownPersonUnited States of America
Kevan BartlettPersonUnited States of America
Dan GaiewskiPersonUnited States of America
Dan CrucePersonUnited States of America
Blaine WatkinsPersonUnited States of America
Mike ZimmerPersonUnited States of America
David GottfriedPersonUnited States of America
Anne CharnockPersonUnited States of America
Kim RossPersonUnited States of America
Sean StinnettPersonUnited States of America
Darby HillsPersonUnited States of America
Annie SpellPersonUnited States of America
Katie WallacePersonUnited States of America