Name: Ages Of Members Of The U.S. Congress Dataset
Creator: FiveThirtyEight
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About this Dataset

Ages Of Members Of The U.S. Congress Dataset

This dataset includes demographic information about members of the United States Congress who served at any point during each congressional session from January 1947 through February 2014.

It contains details such as the member's chamber, party affiliation, state representation, age during the session, and whether they were incumbents.

The data combines information from the @unitedstates project, GovTrack, and the New York Times Congress API.

Tables

Congress Members By Session With Age And Demographics

@fivethirtyeight.congress_age.congress_terms

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18,635 rows
13 columns

CREATE TABLE congress_terms (
  "congress" BIGINT,
  "chamber" VARCHAR,
  "bioguide" VARCHAR,
  "firstname" VARCHAR,
  "middlename" VARCHAR,
  "lastname" VARCHAR,
  "suffix" VARCHAR,
  "birthday" TIMESTAMP,
  "state" VARCHAR,
  "party" VARCHAR,
  "incumbent" VARCHAR,
  "termstart" TIMESTAMP,
  "age" DOUBLE
);