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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Illinois delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAbner TaylorIllinois · District 1Republican1889–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAdam SnyderIllinois · District 1Democratic1837–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeArthur MitchellIllinois · District 1Democratic1935–1943
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBennett StewartIllinois · District 1Democratic1979–1981
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBernard CaulfieldIllinois · District 1Democratic1873–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBobby RushIllinois · District 1Democratic1993–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles HayesIllinois · District 1Democratic1983–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles SladeIllinois · District 1Jackson1833–1835
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel CookIllinois · District 1Adams1821–1827
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarold WashingtonIllinois · District 1Democratic1981–1985
- Former U.S. RepresentativeIsaac ArnoldIllinois · District 1Republican1861–1865
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames AldrichIllinois · District 1Republican1893–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn ReynoldsIllinois · District 1Democratic1833–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn RiceIllinois · District 1Republican1873–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn WentworthIllinois · District 1Republican1843–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMartin EmerichIllinois · District 1Democratic1903–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMartin MaddenIllinois · District 1Republican1905–1929
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNorman JuddIllinois · District 1Republican1867–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOscar De PriestIllinois · District 1Republican1929–1935
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRalph MetcalfeIllinois · District 1Democratic1971–1979
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRansom DunhamIllinois · District 1Republican1883–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam AldrichIllinois · District 1Republican1877–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam DawsonIllinois · District 1Democratic1943–1971
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