house_reps: Oregon House Representatives
In or-house-vis/history: History of the Oregon House of Representatives

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A dataset containing the chronological list of Oregon House representatives since 1849 to present.

1	house_reps

A tibble with 7,441 rows and 12 variables where each row represents a legislator in a particular legislative session:

session_name: legislative session
legislator: name of representative
district: legislative district they represented in this session
role: any roles they occupied during the session, e.g. "Speaker"
party: political party the legislator is affiliated with. Affiliations separated by slashes, indicate a change in affiliation during the session.
residence: counties included in the legislators district
gender: legislator's gender
desk_number: the desk at which the legislator sits in the house
profession: legislator's profession
notes: any other information about the legislators term
session_year: the integer year of the session
regular: is this a "Regular" session?

The date the data was retrieved from the Chief Clerk's page is available in a retrieved attribute.

https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/chief-clerk/Pages/representatives.aspx

house_reps_regular for only legislators present at the start of regular sessions, party_colors for some suggested colors for plotting party affiliation.