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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Virginia delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeColgate Darden Jr.Virginia · District 2Democratic1933–1943
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid TylerVirginia · District 2Democratic1893–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward HollandVirginia · District 2Democratic1911–1921
- Former U.S. RepresentativeElaine LuriaVirginia · District 2Democratic2019–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrancis RivesVirginia · District 2Democratic1837–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge CaryVirginia · District 2Democratic1841–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge DromgooleVirginia · District 2Democratic1835–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGlenn NyeVirginia · District 2Democratic2009–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarry MaynardVirginia · District 2Democratic1901–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn Goode Jr.Virginia · District 2Democratic1875–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn LawsonVirginia · District 2Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn MillsonVirginia · District 2Democratic1849–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph DealVirginia · District 2Democratic1921–1929
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNorman HamiltonVirginia · District 2Democratic1937–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOwen PickettVirginia · District 2Democratic1987–2001
- Former U.S. RepresentativePorter Hardy Jr.Virginia · District 2Democratic1947–1969
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRalph DaughtonVirginia · District 2Democratic1943–1947
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard MeadeVirginia · District 2Democratic1847–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam YoungVirginia · District 2Democratic1897–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWinder HarrisVirginia · District 2Democratic1941–1945
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