Republicans prior to party formation.

[huskerjason]

I count 805 members with terms that say they were Republicans in the first 23 Congresses. The Republicans first take office in the 34th. I think most should be Democratic-Republican. Take 14th Congress for example, there's 167 Republicans but only one Democratic-Republican.

Thx for all the work on this project.

[JoshData]

That could be. I'd happily accept a pull request that makes the corrections with a link to some reference material to verify it.

[huskerjason]

The top guy! Yeah, I'd love to help.

I ended up using Voteviews party data for my project. Rather than make changes to your data, how about adding Voteview's party_code and party_name to your term object? Something like:

{'type': 'rep',
'start': '1995-01-04',
'end': '1997-01-03',
'state': 'NY',
'district': 17,
'party': 'Democrat',
'voteview_party_code: 100,
'voteview_party_name: 'Democratic Party'}

[JoshData]

I don't want to have conflicting info in the same dataset. If the existing info is wrong, effort should go to fixing it, rather than burying it.