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.
New York13
New York delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles HughesNew York · District 15Democratic1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles McVeanNew York · District 15Jackson1833–1835
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward DoddNew York · District 15Republican1855–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames McKeanNew York · District 15Republican1859–1863
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn EdwardsNew York · District 15Democratic1837–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn SanfordNew York · District 15Democratic1841–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn ThurmanNew York · District 15Whig1849–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph RussellNew York · District 15Democratic1845–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLemuel StetsonNew York · District 15Democratic1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMatthias BoveeNew York · District 15Jackson1835–1837
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMichael HoffmanNew York · District 15Jackson1825–1833
- Former U.S. RepresentativePeter WagnerNew York · District 15Whig1839–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSidney LawrenceNew York · District 15Democratic1847–1849
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