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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New York delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew DoigNew York · District 16Democratic1839–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeArphaxed LoomisNew York · District 16Democratic1837–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeChesselden EllisNew York · District 16Democratic1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCornelius PugsleyNew York · District 16Democratic1901–1903
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEliot EngelNew York · District 16Democratic1989–2021
- Former U.S. RepresentativeElizabeth HoltzmanNew York · District 16Democratic1973–1981
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJacob Ruppert Jr.New York · District 16Democratic1899–1907
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJamaal BowmanNew York · District 16Democratic2021–2025
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames FayNew York · District 16Democratic1939–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames MurphyNew York · District 16Democratic1949–1953
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn O’ConnorNew York · District 16Democratic1923–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn RogersNew York · District 16Democratic1871–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn UnderhillNew York · District 16Democratic1899–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMichael NolanNew York · District 16Democratic1881–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTerence QuinnNew York · District 16Democratic1877–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas SmithNew York · District 16Democratic1917–1921
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas Van AlstyneNew York · District 16Democratic1883–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam RyanNew York · District 16Democratic1893–1895
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