house_reps_regular: Oregon House Representatives in regular sessions

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

Description

A dataset containing the chronological list of Oregon House representatives in regular sessions since Oregon was a state (1860) to present.

Usage

house_reps_regular

Format

A tibble with 4,897 rows and 12 variables where each row represents a legislator who was in office at the start of a regular 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 at the start of the legislative 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?

Details

house_reps_regular is a more processed data set than house_reps, in particular it:

• only includes Regular sessions,

• after OR became a state, with

• legislators in the house at the start of the session, and

• their party affiliation at the start of the session.

Source

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

See Also

house_reps for legislators in all sessions, party_colors for some suggested colors for plotting party affiliation.

Examples

house_reps_regular

or-house-vis/history documentation built on May 15, 2019, 1:11 p.m.