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 →- Alfred GatlinNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Crawford Republican1823–1825
- Clinton CobbNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Republican1869–1875
- Eva ClaytonNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic1992–2003
- Frank Ballance Jr.North CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic2003–2004
- G.k. Butterfield Jr.North CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic2004–2022
- Hallett WardNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic1921–1925
- Harry SkinnerNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Populist1895–1899
- Henry ShawNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic1853–1859
- Herbert BonnerNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic1939–1967
- James GrahamNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Whig1833–1847
- Jesse YeatesNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic1875–1881
- John FrenchNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Republican1867–1869
- John SmallNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic1899–1921
- John SteeleNorth CarolinaDistrict 11789–1793
- Joseph DicksonNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Federalist1799–1801
- Joseph MartinNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Republican1879–1881
- Joseph McDowellNorth CarolinaDistrict 11793–1795
- Joseph McDowellNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Republican1797–1799
- Lemuel SawyerNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Jackson1807–1829
- Lindsay WarrenNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic1925–1941
- Louis LathamNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic1881–1889
- Robert PaineNorth CarolinaDistrict 1American1855–1857
- Samuel SawyerNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Whig1837–1839
- Thomas SkinnerNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic1883–1891
- Thomas WynnsNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Republican1801–1807
- Walter Jones Sr.North CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic1965–1992
- Walter PoolNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Republican1883–1885
- William BranchNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Democratic1891–1895
- William MurfreeNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Republican1813–1817
- William ShepardNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Whig1829–1837
- William SmithNorth CarolinaDistrict 1Ind. Republican-Democrat1859–1861
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