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 →- Allen MooreIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1921–1925
- Andrew HunterIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1893–1899
- Benson WoodIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1895–1897
- Charles AdkinsIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1925–1933
- Charles BorchersIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1913–1915
- Daniel CraneIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1979–1985
- Darwin SchislerIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1965–1967
- David PhelpsIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1999–2003
- Donald DobbinsIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1933–1937
- Glenn PoshardIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1989–1999
- Hugh RigneyIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1937–1939
- Richard TownshendIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1877–1891
- Robert ChiperfieldIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1939–1963
- Robert McLoskeyIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1963–1965
- Samuel MarshallIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1855–1875
- Terry BruceIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1985–1993
- Thomas RailsbackIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1967–1983
- Vespasian WarnerIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1895–1905
- William AndersonIllinoisDistrict 19Independent1875–1877
- William WheatIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1939–1945
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