This table contains the data behind the story 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, with Congress meeting numbers added using code from GovTrack:
Senate membership data is mostly from the New York Times 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.
Data source: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/congress-age/congress-terms.csv
| rowid | congress | chamber | bioguide | firstname | middlename | lastname | suffix | birthday | state | party | incumbent | termstart | age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 80 | house | W000265 | Richard | Joseph | Welch | 1869-02-13 | CA | R | Yes | 1947-01-03 | 77.9 |