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.

116th 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.

Completed Tasks

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

• US House Data Created
• Representative Headshots Created
• Images Uploaded to CDN
• GeoJSON File Created
• Published NPM Package

Representative Data

This project offers data for the 116th United States House in the following formats:

• CSV
• JSON
• SQL & SQL Table
• XML
• YML

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

1. Download Latest CSV from Google Sheets
2. Replace ./source/us-house.csv with this new file
3. 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