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 →- Adlai StevensonIllinoisDistrict 13Democratic1875–1881
- Andrew KuykendallIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1865–1867
- Dietrich SmithIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1881–1883
- Donald RumsfeldIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1963–1971
- Frank LowdenIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1905–1911
- Green RaumIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1867–1869
- Harris FawellIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1985–1999
- John CrebsIllinoisDistrict 13Democratic1869–1873
- John ErlenbornIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1965–1985
- John McKenzieIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1911–1925
- John McNultaIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1873–1875
- Judy BiggertIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1999–2013
- Marguerite ChurchIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1951–1963
- Ralph ChurchIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1935–1951
- Robert HittIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1881–1907
- Robert McCloryIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1963–1983
- Rodney DavisIllinoisDistrict 13Republican2013–2023
- Thomas TiptonIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1877–1879
- William AllenIllinoisDistrict 13Democratic1861–1865
- William JohnsonIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1925–1933
- William SpringerIllinoisDistrict 13Democratic1875–1895
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