# Officials

Use Officials endpoints to get information on elected officials by name or by region.


## Find elected officials

 - [GET /official](https://developer.melissa.com/apis/cicero/officials/official.md): Cicero tracks elected officials and makes their information available through the official resource. The default response ordering is by last_name, first_name.

Use location queries on this resource. You can also query for officials using the official's name.

Cost: 1 credit

## Find elected officials by region

 - [GET /officials_by_region](https://developer.melissa.com/apis/cicero/officials/officials_by_region.md): This resource provides the ability to list elected officials by level and region rather than for a single geographic location. The endpoint is filtered by district type and region, and sorted by last_name, first_name.

Cost: 50 credits

Permission: Please contact the Cicero Team to request access to this resource.