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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Tennessee delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlfred TaylorTennessee · District 1Republican1889–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAugustus PettiboneTennessee · District 1Republican1881–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBill JenkinsTennessee · District 1Republican1997–2007
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBrazilla ReeceTennessee · District 1Republican1921–1963
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid DavisTennessee · District 1Republican2007–2009
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDayton PhillipsTennessee · District 1Republican1947–1951
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames QuillenTennessee · District 1Republican1963–1997
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames RandolphTennessee · District 1Republican1877–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn RheaTennessee · District 1Republican1803–1823
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLouise ReeceTennessee · District 1Republican1961–1963
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOscar LovetteTennessee · District 1Republican1931–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativePhil RoeTennessee · District 1Republican2009–2021
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRoderick ButlerTennessee · District 1Republican1867–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSam SellsTennessee · District 1Republican1911–1921
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel PowellTennessee · District 1Republican1815–1817
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWalter BrownlowTennessee · District 1Republican1897–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam AndersonTennessee · District 1Republican1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeZachary MasseyTennessee · District 1Republican1909–1911
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