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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Iowa delegation →- Albert DawsonIowaDistrict 2Republican1905–1911
- Aylett CottonIowaDistrict 2Republican1871–1875
- Bernhard JacobsenIowaDistrict 2Democratic1931–1937
- David LoebsackIowaDistrict 2Democratic2007–2021
- Fred LettsIowaDistrict 2Republican1925–1931
- George CurtisIowaDistrict 2Republican1895–1899
- Harry HullIowaDistrict 2Republican1915–1925
- Henry TalleIowaDistrict 2Republican1939–1959
- Henry VollmerIowaDistrict 2Democratic1913–1915
- Hiram PriceIowaDistrict 2Republican1863–1881
- Irvin PepperIowaDistrict 2Democratic1911–1915
- James BromwellIowaDistrict 2Republican1961–1965
- James ThoringtonIowaDistrict 2Ind. Republican-Democrat1855–1857
- Jeremiah MurphyIowaDistrict 2Democratic1883–1887
- Jim LeachIowaDistrict 2Republican1977–2007
- John CookIowaDistrict 2Whig1853–1855
- John RumpleIowaDistrict 2Republican1901–1903
- John TuftsIowaDistrict 2Republican1875–1877
- Joseph LaneIowaDistrict 2Republican1899–1901
- Leonard WolfIowaDistrict 2Democratic1959–1961
- Lincoln ClarkIowaDistrict 2Democratic1851–1853
- Martin WadeIowaDistrict 2Democratic1903–1905
- Michael BlouinIowaDistrict 2Democratic1975–1979
- Sewall FarwellIowaDistrict 2Republican1881–1883
- Shepherd LefflerIowaDistrict 2Democratic1845–1851
- Thomas TaukeIowaDistrict 2Republican1979–1991
- Timothy DavisIowaDistrict 2Republican1857–1859
- Walter HayesIowaDistrict 2Democratic1887–1895
- William JacobsenIowaDistrict 2Democratic1937–1943
- William SmythIowaDistrict 2Republican1869–1871
- William WolfIowaDistrict 2Republican1869–1871
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