These notes relate to the article “Tracking where displaced top Congressional staffers have migrated,” first published Feb. 13, 2013.

The default setting is to list all Chiefs-of-Staff and Legislative Directors, but you can choose to view only those who were the last incumbent in a position, or only those who were predecessors in a position.

You can sort the data by nine different fields.

Please note that if a staffer had multiple positions (that is, was concurrently a Legislative Director and Deputy Chief-of-Staff, or visa versa), we just listed that staffer’s non-deputy position (Legislative Director or Chief-of-Staff).

A staffer listed as “last incumbent in position” may have left for a new position prior to the end of 2012. Three staffers so listed have footnotes next to their names to indicate special circumstances:

(1) Bern, Jaryd — Although not the last Chief-of-Staff, was Chief-of-Staff for a very substantial portion of the 112th Congress (until the final two months of the session).

(2) Mahr, Thomas — Though he had a successor, he was the Legislative Director from 1997-2012.

(3) Smith, William — He was Rep. Pence’s long-term Chief-of-Staff until August 2012 (Rep. Pence was elected governor of Indiana in November, and Smith again became his Chief-of-Staff). 

An asterisk next to the name of a Member of Congress denotes a member who did not stay in office until the end of the 112th Congress.

A dagger next to the name of a Member of Congress denotes a member whose district designation has been changed due to redistricting, or a member who ran for a different office than the one the member represented in the 112th Congress. In the viz, we list these members with the district designation in effect during the 112th Congress. Here is a table associating old district designations with new district designations: