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 →- Abner TaylorIllinoisDistrict 1Republican1889–1893
- Adam SnyderIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1837–1839
- Arthur MitchellIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1935–1943
- Bennett StewartIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1979–1981
- Bernard CaulfieldIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1873–1877
- Bobby RushIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1993–2023
- Charles HayesIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1983–1993
- Charles SladeIllinoisDistrict 1Jackson1833–1835
- Daniel CookIllinoisDistrict 1Adams1821–1827
- Harold WashingtonIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1981–1985
- Isaac ArnoldIllinoisDistrict 1Republican1861–1865
- James AldrichIllinoisDistrict 1Republican1893–1897
- John ReynoldsIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1833–1843
- John RiceIllinoisDistrict 1Republican1873–1875
- John WentworthIllinoisDistrict 1Republican1843–1867
- Martin EmerichIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1903–1905
- Martin MaddenIllinoisDistrict 1Republican1905–1929
- Norman JuddIllinoisDistrict 1Republican1867–1871
- Oscar De PriestIllinoisDistrict 1Republican1929–1935
- Ralph MetcalfeIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1971–1979
- Ransom DunhamIllinoisDistrict 1Republican1883–1889
- William AldrichIllinoisDistrict 1Republican1877–1883
- William DawsonIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1943–1971
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