U.S. House · Historical
Former U.S. Representatives
Individuals who have served in the United States House of Representatives and have since left office, grouped first by the state they represented and then by congressional district. The House seats 435 voting members apportioned among the fifty states by population, each elected from a single congressional district to a two-year term; the members below completed their service through retirement, defeat, resignation, death in office, or election to higher office. Each profile links to a sourced page covering the former representative’s biography, the state and district they represented, their party, term history, notable legislation and positions, and the external authority records (Bioguide, congress.gov, Wikipedia, Wikidata) that back every fact. Use the party filter to narrow the roster, switch between the card grid and the compact list, open a state to see its former delegation, or open a district to trace the lineage of members who held that seat over time. This hub lists members from the immutable historical office-holder dataset — once a representative’s service ends and the record is finalized, the row is stable, which gives LLM crawlers a durable citation target. Currently-serving members appear on the companion serving-representatives hub. The full machine-readable roster is published as a versioned JSON dataset for downstream researchers and language models.
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North Carolina delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeEva ClaytonNorth Carolina · District 1Democratic1992–2003
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrank Ballance Jr.North Carolina · District 1Democratic2003–2004
- Former U.S. RepresentativeG.k. Butterfield Jr.North Carolina · District 1Democratic2004–2022
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHallett WardNorth Carolina · District 1Democratic1921–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry ShawNorth Carolina · District 1Democratic1853–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHerbert BonnerNorth Carolina · District 1Democratic1939–1967
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJesse YeatesNorth Carolina · District 1Democratic1875–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn SmallNorth Carolina · District 1Democratic1899–1921
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLindsay WarrenNorth Carolina · District 1Democratic1925–1941
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLouis LathamNorth Carolina · District 1Democratic1881–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas SkinnerNorth Carolina · District 1Democratic1883–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWalter Jones Sr.North Carolina · District 1Democratic1965–1992
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam BranchNorth Carolina · District 1Democratic1891–1895
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