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 →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAllen MooreIllinois · District 19Republican1921–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew HunterIllinois · District 19Democratic1893–1899
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenson WoodIllinois · District 19Republican1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles AdkinsIllinois · District 19Republican1925–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles BorchersIllinois · District 19Democratic1913–1915
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel CraneIllinois · District 19Republican1979–1985
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDarwin SchislerIllinois · District 19Democratic1965–1967
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid PhelpsIllinois · District 19Democratic1999–2003
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDonald DobbinsIllinois · District 19Democratic1933–1937
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGlenn PoshardIllinois · District 19Democratic1989–1999
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHugh RigneyIllinois · District 19Democratic1937–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard TownshendIllinois · District 19Democratic1877–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert ChiperfieldIllinois · District 19Republican1939–1963
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert McLoskeyIllinois · District 19Republican1963–1965
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel MarshallIllinois · District 19Democratic1855–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTerry BruceIllinois · District 19Democratic1985–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas RailsbackIllinois · District 19Republican1967–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeVespasian WarnerIllinois · District 19Republican1895–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam AndersonIllinois · District 19Independent1875–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam WheatIllinois · District 19Republican1939–1945
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