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 →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAaron HobartMassachusetts · District 11Adams1819–1827
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAbijah BigelowMassachusetts · District 11Federalist1809–1815
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew PetersMassachusetts · District 11Democratic1907–1915
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBailey BartlettMassachusetts · District 11Federalist1797–1801
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin AdamsMassachusetts · District 11Federalist1815–1821
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBrian DonnellyMassachusetts · District 11Democratic1979–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles SpragueMassachusetts · District 11Republican1897–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeChester ChapinMassachusetts · District 11Democratic1875–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeElijah BrighamMassachusetts · District 11Federalist1811–1817
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrederick CoolidgeMassachusetts · District 11Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames BurkeMassachusetts · District 11Democratic1959–1979
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames CurleyMassachusetts · District 11Democratic1911–1947
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn DouglassMassachusetts · District 11Democratic1925–1935
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn GoodrichMassachusetts · District 11Whig1851–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HigginsMassachusetts · District 11Democratic1935–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn ReedMassachusetts · District 11Whig1813–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn SullivanMassachusetts · District 11Democratic1903–1907
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJonathan RussellMassachusetts · District 11Republican1821–1823
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph RichardsonMassachusetts · District 111827–1831
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMark TraftonMassachusetts · District 11American1855–1857
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRodney WallaceMassachusetts · District 11Republican1889–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTheophilus BradburyMassachusetts · District 11Federalist1795–1799
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas FlahertyMassachusetts · District 11Democratic1937–1943
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam DraperMassachusetts · District 11Republican1893–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam StedmanMassachusetts · District 11Federalist1803–1811
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam WhitingMassachusetts · District 11Republican1883–1889
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