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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:
Total28,450
Searchable12,488
Targets12,297
Entity types:
People12,297
Positions191
Countries:
United States12,488
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:2025-02-17 01:13:02
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 entities14.17 MB
names.txtTarget names text file531.21 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format11.18 MB
source.zipSource data19.45 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON20.54 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV3.1 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 YocumPersonUnited States
Margo JuarezPersonUnited States
Dunixi GuerecaPersonUnited States
Jason ProkopPersonUnited States
Ian MastersPersonUnited States
Jared StormPersonUnited States
Stan ClousePersonUnited States
Marty JacobsPersonUnited States
Ashlei SpiveyPersonUnited States
Victor RountreePersonUnited States
Tatiana Pérez RamírezPersonUnited States
Dan LonowskiPersonUnited States
David DolanPersonUnited States
Glen MeyerPersonUnited States
Bob AndersenPersonUnited States
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