Civil Services is a collection of tools that make it possible for citizens to be a part of what is happening in their Local, State & Federal Governments.

117th Congress United States House of Representatives

We have also built an interactive search tool that can show you some interesting demographic data on US Representatives.

★ Search House Representatives ⧁

Introduction

This project provides the United States House of Representatives Data, Headshots & City Photo for New York, NY ( GeoJSON, JSON, XML, CSV, SQL & YML formats ). See Provided Data below for full list of data in this project.

Data Source

Our team Manages the 117th Congress - United States House Members - Demographic Data. This document is Read Only for the general public. If you would like to update this document, Join our Slack Team to learn how.

IMPORTANT: All data in this repository comes directly from This Spreadsheet. If you edit the data in this repo manually, it will get overwritten.

Completed Tasks

We have completed the following Data Collection Watch Project to be notified of updates.

Representative Data

This project offers data for the 117th United States House in the following formats:

Developers

Requirements

To run converters, you will need to run the following:

brew install imagemagick
brew install graphicsmagick

Rebuild Data & Assets

The ./us-house folder is generated by the contents in the ./source folder. See the ./source/README.md file for requirements for the core assets.

To update the data & assets in the us-house folder, you will need to run the following commands:

npm install
npm run -s build

Data Set

The following information is available for each Representative.

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Parameter	Type	Description
`state_name`	string	Name of State
`state_state_name_slug`	string	Name of State converted to lowercase letters and spaces replaced with dashes
`state_code`	string	Two Letter State Abbreviation
`state_code_slug`	string	Two Letter State Abbreviation in lowercase letters
`district`	mixed	District of Representative ( not always available )
`at_large`	enum	Representative is considered At-Large
`vacant`	enum	Representative Seat is Vacant
`bioguide`	string	The alphanumeric ID for this Representative on http://bioguide.congress.gov ( http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001075 )
`thomas`	string	The numeric ID for this Representative ( not really used anymore )
`opensecrets`	string	The alphanumeric ID for this Representative on OpenSecrets.org ( https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00030245 )
`votesmart`	string	The numeric ID for this Representative on VoteSmart.org ( http://votesmart.org/candidate/69494 )
`fec`	string	Federal Election Commission ID ( http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?candidateCommitteeId=H6AL04098 )
`maplight`	string	The numeric ID for this Representative on MapLight.org ( http://maplight.org/us-congress/legislator/127 )
`wikidata`	string	The numeric ID for this Representative on wikidata.org ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q672671 )
`google_entity_id`	string	Google Integration
`title`	enum	Title of Representative
`party`	enum	Political Party of Representative
`name`	string	Full Name of Representative
`name_slug`	string	Full Name of Representative converted to lowercase letters and spaces replaced with dashes
`first_name`	string	First Name of Representative
`middle_name`	string	Middle Name of Representative
`last_name`	string	Last Name of Representative
`name_suffix`	string	Name Suffix of Representative
`goes_by`	string	Name Representative Prefers to go by
`pronunciation`	string	How to Pronounce Representative's Name
`gender`	enum	Gender of Representative
`ethnicity`	enum	Ethnicity of Representative
`religion`	enum	Religion of Representative
`openley_lgbtq`	enum	Representative is Openly LGBTQ
`date_of_birth`	date	Date of Birth of Representative
`entered_office`	date	Date Representative First Entered Office
`term_end`	date	Date Representative's Current Term Ends
`biography`	string	Senator's Biography from Congress.gov
`phone`	string	Work Phone Number of Representative
`fax`	string	Work Phone Number of Representative
`latitude`	float	GPS Latitude of Office
`longitude`	float	GPS Longitude of Office
`address_complete`	string	Work Mailing Address of Representative
`address_number`	number	Mailing Address Number
`address_prefix`	string	Mailing Address Prefix
`address_street`	string	Mailing Address Street
`address_sec_unit_type`	string	Mailing Address Section Unit Type
`address_sec_unit_num`	number	Mailing Address Section Unit Number
`address_city`	string	Mailing Address City
`address_state`	string	Mailing Address State
`address_zipcode`	string	Mailing Address zipcode
`address_type`	string	Mailing Address Type
`website`	string	Representative's Website
`contact_page`	string	Representative's Contact Page
`facebook_url`	string	Facebook URL
`twitter_handle`	string	Twitter Handle of Representative ( not always available )
`twitter_url`	string	Twitter URL of Representative ( not always available )
`photo_url`	string	Photo URL of Representative ( not always available )

photo_url is available in the following sizes: 64x64, 128x128, 256x256, 512x512 & 1024x1024 ( defaults to 512x512 )

Update Instructions

Updating House Data can be done with the following instructions:

View Instructions

Download Latest CSV from Google Sheets
Replace ./source/us-house.csv with this new file
Run the following commands:

npm run convert-csv
npm run build-data
npm run build-geojson
npm run build-seeder

If you created new images because of a change in elected officials, you will also need to run:

npm run build-images

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