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 →- Benjamin CableIllinoisDistrict 11Democratic1891–1893
- Chester ChesneyIllinoisDistrict 11Democratic1949–1951
- Deborah HalvorsonIllinoisDistrict 11Democratic2009–2011
- Frank AnnunzioIllinoisDistrict 11Democratic1965–1993
- Frank ReidIllinoisDistrict 11Republican1923–1935
- George SangmeisterIllinoisDistrict 11Democratic1989–1995
- Howard SnappIllinoisDistrict 11Republican1903–1911
- Ira CopleyIllinoisDistrict 11Republican1911–1923
- James SingletonIllinoisDistrict 11Democratic1879–1883
- Jerry WellerIllinoisDistrict 11Republican1995–2009
- Robert KnappIllinoisDistrict 11Democratic1873–1879
- Roman PucinskiIllinoisDistrict 11Democratic1959–1973
- Timothy SheehanIllinoisDistrict 11Republican1951–1959
- Walter ReevesIllinoisDistrict 11Republican1895–1903
- William GestIllinoisDistrict 11Republican1887–1891
- William NeeceIllinoisDistrict 11Democratic1883–1887
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