Content # Congressional Resignations This folder contains data behind the story [We’ve Never Seen Congressional Resignations Like This Before](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-people-are-resigning-from-congress-than-at-any-time-in-recent-history/). `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: Code | Category -----| --------- `X` | Unwanted sexual contact `A` | Consensual sex scandals `B` | Other scandals `C` | Other office `D` | Private sector `E` | Health/family `F` | Other `G` | Left early `H` | Military service `I` | Election overturned Context This is a dataset from [FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/) hosted on their [GitHub](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data). Explore FiveThirtyEight data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the FiveThirtyEight [organization page](https://www.kaggle.com/fivethirtyeight)! * Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily. Acknowledgements This dataset is maintained using GitHub's [API](https://developer.github.com/v3/?) and Kaggle's [API](https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api). This dataset is distributed under the [Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license. [Cover photo](https://unsplash.com/photos/nlmq5jC9Slo) by [roya ann miller](https://unsplash.com/@royaannmiller) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/) _Unsplash Images are distributed under a unique [Unsplash License](https://unsplash.com/license)._