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GET /v1/legislator

One legislator by id

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/congress-api/v1/legislator" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/congress-api/v1/legislator", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/congress-api/v1/legislator");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/congress-api/v1/legislator",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "legislator": {
            "last": "Cantwell",
            "name": "Maria Cantwell",
            "first": "Maria",
            "party": "Democrat",
            "state": "WA",
            "terms": [
                {
                    "end": "1995-01-03",
                    "type": "rep",
                    "party": "Democrat",
                    "start": "1993-01-05",
                    "state": "WA",
                    "district": 1
                },
                {
                    "end": "2007-01-03",
                    "type": "sen",
                    "party": "Democrat",
                    "start": "2001-01-03",
                    "state": "WA"
                },
                {
                    "end": "2013-01-03",
                    "type": "sen",
                    "party": "Democrat",
                    "start": "2007-01-04",
                    "state": "WA"
                },
                {
                    "end": "2019-01-03",
                    "type": "sen",
                    "party": "Democrat",
                    "start": "2013-01-03",
                    "state": "WA"
                },
                {
                    "end": "2025-01-03",
                    "type": "sen",
                    "party": "Democrat",
                    "start": "2019-01-03",
                    "state": "WA"
                },
                {
                    "end": "2031-01-03",
                    "type": "sen",
                    "party": "Democrat",
                    "start": "2025-01-03",
                    "state": "WA"
                }
            ],
            "gender": "F",
            "chamber": "senate",
            "current": true,
            "parties": [
                "Democrat"
            ],
            "bioguide": "C000127",
            "birthday": "1958-10-13",
            "district": null,
            "govtrack": 300018,
            "wikidata": "Q22250",
            "served_to": "2031-01-03",
            "wikipedia": "Maria Cantwell",
            "term_count": 6,
            "served_from": "1993-01-05"
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-31T07:41:40.139Z",
        "request_id": "b3d7a9c3-95f1-45bf-b730-5c84bcdd9e19"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Legislator retrieved",
    "success": true
}