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 →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAdlai StevensonIllinois · District 13Democratic1875–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew KuykendallIllinois · District 13Republican1865–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDietrich SmithIllinois · District 13Republican1881–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDonald RumsfeldIllinois · District 13Republican1963–1971
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrank LowdenIllinois · District 13Republican1905–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGreen RaumIllinois · District 13Republican1867–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarris FawellIllinois · District 13Republican1985–1999
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn CrebsIllinois · District 13Democratic1869–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn ErlenbornIllinois · District 13Republican1965–1985
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn McKenzieIllinois · District 13Republican1911–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn McNultaIllinois · District 13Republican1873–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJudy BiggertIllinois · District 13Republican1999–2013
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMarguerite ChurchIllinois · District 13Republican1951–1963
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRalph ChurchIllinois · District 13Republican1935–1951
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert HittIllinois · District 13Republican1881–1907
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert McCloryIllinois · District 13Republican1963–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRodney DavisIllinois · District 13Republican2013–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas TiptonIllinois · District 13Republican1877–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam AllenIllinois · District 13Democratic1861–1865
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam JohnsonIllinois · District 13Republican1925–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam SpringerIllinois · District 13Democratic1875–1895
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