Names of members of the US Congress

A dataset of the names of all members of each United States Congress, including presidents. The pattern column serves as a lookup table to match members of Congress to text supplied to extractMemberName().

Usage

members

Format

A data frame with 51053 rows and 10 variables:

congress

double The Congress

chamber

character House or Senate

bioname

character voteview.com name formatted LAST, First

pattern

character Regular expression pattern for matching

icpsr

double ICPSR ID

state

double State code from voteview.com

state_abbrev

character State

district_code

double District

bioguide_id

character congress.gov Bioguid ID

first_name

character First Name

last_name

character Last Name

Details

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