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 →- Albert WatkinsTennesseeDistrict 1Democratic1849–1859
- Alfred TaylorTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1889–1895
- Augustus PettiboneTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1881–1887
- Bill JenkinsTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1997–2007
- Brazilla ReeceTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1921–1963
- Brookins CampbellTennesseeDistrict 1Democratic1853–1855
- David DavisTennesseeDistrict 1Republican2007–2009
- Dayton PhillipsTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1947–1951
- James QuillenTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1963–1997
- James RandolphTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1877–1879
- John BlairTennesseeDistrict 1Jackson1823–1835
- John RheaTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1803–1823
- Louise ReeceTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1961–1963
- Nathaniel TaylorTennesseeDistrict 1Unionist1853–1867
- Oscar LovetteTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1931–1933
- Phil RoeTennesseeDistrict 1Republican2009–2021
- Roderick ButlerTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1867–1889
- Sam SellsTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1911–1921
- Samuel PowellTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1815–1817
- Thomas ArnoldTennesseeDistrict 1Whig1831–1843
- Walter BrownlowTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1897–1911
- William AndersonTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1895–1897
- William CarterTennesseeDistrict 1Whig1835–1841
- William McFarlandTennesseeDistrict 1Democratic1875–1877
- Zachary MasseyTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1909–1911
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