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.
Connecticut16
Connecticut delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeBryan MahanConnecticut · District 2Democratic1913–1915
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCarlos FrenchConnecticut · District 2Democratic1887–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles MitchellConnecticut · District 2Democratic1883–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeChase WoodhouseConnecticut · District 2Democratic1945–1951
- Former U.S. RepresentativeChester BowlesConnecticut · District 2Democratic1959–1961
- Former U.S. RepresentativeColin IngersollConnecticut · District 2Democratic1851–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames PhelpsConnecticut · District 2Democratic1875–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames PigottConnecticut · District 2Democratic1893–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn StewartConnecticut · District 2Democratic1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJulius HotchkissConnecticut · District 2Democratic1867–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSam GejdensonConnecticut · District 2Democratic1981–2001
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel ArnoldConnecticut · District 2Democratic1857–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel InghamConnecticut · District 2Democratic1835–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWashington WillcoxConnecticut · District 2Democratic1889–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam FitzgeraldConnecticut · District 2Democratic1937–1943
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam St. OngeConnecticut · District 2Democratic1963–1971
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