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 →- Aaron HobartMassachusettsDistrict 11Adams1819–1827
- Abijah BigelowMassachusettsDistrict 11Federalist1809–1815
- Andrew PetersMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1907–1915
- Bailey BartlettMassachusettsDistrict 11Federalist1797–1801
- Benjamin AdamsMassachusettsDistrict 11Federalist1815–1821
- Brian DonnellyMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1979–1993
- Charles SpragueMassachusettsDistrict 11Republican1897–1901
- Chester ChapinMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1875–1877
- Elijah BrighamMassachusettsDistrict 11Federalist1811–1817
- Frederick CoolidgeMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1891–1893
- James BurkeMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1959–1979
- James CurleyMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1911–1947
- John DouglassMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1925–1935
- John GoodrichMassachusettsDistrict 11Whig1851–1855
- John HigginsMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1935–1939
- John ReedMassachusettsDistrict 11Whig1813–1841
- John SullivanMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1903–1907
- Jonathan RussellMassachusettsDistrict 11Republican1821–1823
- Joseph RichardsonMassachusettsDistrict 111827–1831
- Mark TraftonMassachusettsDistrict 11American1855–1857
- Rodney WallaceMassachusettsDistrict 11Republican1889–1891
- Theophilus BradburyMassachusettsDistrict 11Federalist1795–1799
- Thomas FlahertyMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1937–1943
- William DraperMassachusettsDistrict 11Republican1893–1897
- William StedmanMassachusettsDistrict 11Federalist1803–1811
- William WhitingMassachusettsDistrict 11Republican1883–1889
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