openstates_search_people

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Search state legislators and officials by name, jurisdiction, chamber, or district, or fetch specific people by OCD person ID. Party is reported on every result but cannot be filtered on — narrow by party after the call. Either jurisdiction or id is required — a search spanning all 56 jurisdictions exceeds the upstream timeout, including a name-only one, so scope every call to a single state or to specific person IDs. Use openstates_list_jurisdictions to pick a jurisdiction, or openstates_get_legislators_by_location when you have coordinates but no state. id takes the person IDs that openstates_get_bill sponsorships and openstates_get_committee memberships hand back, and resolves any number of them in one call. Supports name substring matching (case-insensitive). org_classification targets a role type: "upper" for Senate, "lower" for House/Assembly, "executive" for governors and executive officials, and "legislature" for every legislator — both chambers merged into one paginated set (all upper members, then all lower), which excludes executive-branch officials. Omitting org_classification is not the same as "legislature": it returns every officeholder, executive officials included. include=offices adds phone, fax, and address. include=links adds website and social links.