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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Pennsylvania delegation →- Albert HopkinsPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1891–1895
- Benjamin JunkinPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1859–1861
- Benjamin MeyersPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Democratic1871–1873
- Charles DickermanPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Democratic1903–1905
- Edgar KiessPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1913–1931
- Edmund SamuelPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1905–1907
- Edwin EshlemanPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1967–1977
- Fred LeonardPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1895–1897
- Henry McCormickPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1887–1891
- Horace PackerPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1897–1901
- Isaac KlinePennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1921–1923
- James BlackPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Democratic1835–1847
- James McLanahanPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Democratic1849–1853
- James StevensonPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Jackson1825–1829
- Jasper BradyPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Whig1847–1849
- John AhlPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Democratic1857–1859
- John CessnaPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1869–1875
- John GilmorePennsylvaniaDistrict 16Jackson1829–1833
- John KunkelPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1939–1967
- John LesherPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Democratic1913–1921
- John McHenryPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Democratic1907–1913
- John SnyderPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Democratic1841–1843
- Joseph AnthonyPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Jackson1833–1837
- Joseph PittsPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1997–2017
- Robert HammondPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Democratic1837–1841
- Robert Orr Jr.PennsylvaniaDistrict 16Jackson1825–1829
- Robert WalkerPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1977–1997
- Robert WalkerPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1881–1883
- Sobieski RossPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1873–1877
- Thomas ScanlonPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Democratic1941–1945
- Walter ForwardPennsylvaniaDistrict 161821–1825
- Walter MummaPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1951–1963
- William BrownPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1883–1887
- William KoontzPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Republican1865–1869
- William KurtzPennsylvaniaDistrict 16Democratic1851–1855
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