Content # Congress Age This folder contains the data behind the story [Both Republicans And Democrats Have an Age Problem](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/both-republicans-and-democrats-have-an-age-problem/) `congress-terms.csv` has an entry for every member of congress who served at any point during a particular congress between January 1947 and Februrary 2014. House membership data is from the [@unitedstates project](http://theunitedstates.io/), with Congress meeting numbers added using code from [GovTrack](https://www.govtrack.us/developers/api): * https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators * https://github.com/govtrack/govtrack.us-web/blob/master/us.py#L93 Senate membership data is mostly from the [New York Times Congress API](http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/read/congress_api) combined with birthdays from @unitedstates. (It does not include the birthday of Sen. Elmer Thomas.) In addition, we added an `incumbent` field to each record. Context This is a dataset from [FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/) hosted on their [GitHub](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data). Explore FiveThirtyEight data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the FiveThirtyEight [organization page](https://www.kaggle.com/fivethirtyeight)! * Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily. Acknowledgements This dataset is maintained using GitHub's [API](https://developer.github.com/v3/?) and Kaggle's [API](https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api). This dataset is distributed under the [Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license. [Cover photo](https://unsplash.com/photos/QGrh_D_sOWw) by [Paolo Nicolello](https://unsplash.com/@paul_nic) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/) _Unsplash Images are distributed under a unique [Unsplash License](https://unsplash.com/license)._