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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Massachusetts delegation →- Abbott LawrenceMassachusettsDistrict 1Whig1835–1841
- Allen TreadwayMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1913–1945
- Artemas Ward Jr.MassachusettsDistrict 1Federalist1813–1817
- Ashley WrightMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1893–1899
- Benjamin GorhamMassachusettsDistrict 1Anti Jacksonian1819–1835
- George LawrenceMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1897–1913
- James BuffintonMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1855–1877
- John BaconMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1801–1803
- John HeseltonMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1945–1959
- John OlverMassachusettsDistrict 1Democratic1991–2013
- Josiah QuincyMassachusettsDistrict 1Federalist1805–1813
- Nathan AppletonMassachusettsDistrict 1Whig1831–1843
- Richard FletcherMassachusettsDistrict 1Democratic1837–1839
- Robert DavisMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1883–1889
- Robert HallMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1855–1859
- Samuel EliotMassachusettsDistrict 1Whig1849–1851
- Samuel HoltenMassachusettsDistrict 11793–1795
- Silvio ConteMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1959–1991
- Thomas EliotMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1853–1869
- William CrapoMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1875–1883
- Zeno ScudderMassachusettsDistrict 1Whig1851–1855
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