Both Republicans And Democrats Have an Age Problem — congress_age • fivethirtyeight

The raw 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_age

Format

A data frame with 18,635 rows representing members of Congress (House and Senate) and 13 variables:

congress: Congress number.
chamber: Chamber of congress: House of Representatives or Senate.
bioguide: bioguide
firstname: First name
middlename: Middle name
lastname: Last name
suffix: Suffix
birthday: Birthday
state: State abbreviation
party: Party abbreviation
incumbent: Boolean variable of whether member was an incumbent.
termstart: Start date of session.
age: Age at start of session.

Source

See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/congress-age