Name: Congress Resignations
Creator: FiveThirtyEight
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About this Dataset

Congress Resignations

This dataset includes all resignations from the U.S. Congress since 1901, including reasons and dates of departure.
It’s useful for tracking congressional turnover and political events leading to resignations.

Tables

Congressional Resignations

@fivethirtyeight.congress_resignations.congressional_resignations

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615 rows
8 columns

CREATE TABLE congressional_resignations (
  "member" VARCHAR,
  "party" VARCHAR,
  "district" VARCHAR,
  "congress" VARCHAR,
  "resignation_date" TIMESTAMP,
  "reason" VARCHAR,
  "source" VARCHAR,
  "category" VARCHAR
);