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 →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander BillmeyerPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1901–1903
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander CoffrothPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1863–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAllen ErtelPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1977–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew ParkerPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1851–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeArchibald McAllisterPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1863–1865
- Former U.S. RepresentativeConor LambPennsylvania · District 17Democratic2018–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavis Dimock Jr.Pennsylvania · District 17Democratic1841–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFranklin DershemPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1913–1915
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHerbert CummingsPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1923–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn ReillyPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1875–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert SpeerPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1871–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRufus PolkPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1899–1903
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel MorrisPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1837–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSimon WolvertonPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1891–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTim HoldenPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1993–2013
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilson ReillyPennsylvania · District 17Democratic1857–1859
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