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Congressional Resignations

This folder contains data behind the story We’ve Never Seen Congressional Resignations Like This Before.

congressional_resignations.csv contains information about the 615 members of Congress who resigned or were removed from office from March 4, 1901 (the first day of the 57th Congress) through January 15, 2018, including the resigning member’s party and district, the date they resigned, the reason for their resignation and the source of the information about their resignation.

The reasons are categorized as follows:

CodeCategory
XUnwanted sexual contact
AConsensual sex scandals
BOther scandals
COther office
DPrivate sector
EHealth/family
FOther
GLeft early
HMilitary service
IElection overturned

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