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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Kentucky delegation →- Albert HawesKentuckyDistrict 2Jackson1831–1837
- Alexander OrrKentuckyDistrict 2Republican1791–1797
- Benjamin GreyKentuckyDistrict 2Whig1851–1855
- Beverly ClarkeKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1847–1849
- Beverly VincentKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1937–1945
- Burwell RitterKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1865–1867
- David KincheloeKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1915–1931
- Edward RumseyKentuckyDistrict 2Whig1837–1839
- George YeamanKentuckyDistrict 2Unionist1861–1865
- Glover CaryKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1931–1937
- Henry AllenKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1899–1903
- Henry McHenryKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1871–1873
- James ClayKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1883–1885
- James JacksonKentuckyDistrict 2Unionist1861–1863
- James JohnsonKentuckyDistrict 2Whig1849–1851
- James McKenzieKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1877–1883
- John BoyleKentuckyDistrict 2Republican1803–1809
- John BrownKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1859–1877
- John Campbell Jr.KentuckyDistrict 2American1855–1857
- John ClardyKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1895–1899
- John Dorsey Jr.KentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1929–1931
- John McHenryKentuckyDistrict 2Whig1845–1847
- John WhitakerKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1948–1951
- Joseph HawkinsKentuckyDistrict 2Republican1813–1815
- Nicholas ColemanKentuckyDistrict 2Jackson1829–1831
- Philip TriplettKentuckyDistrict 2Whig1839–1843
- Polk LaffoonKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1885–1889
- Ron LewisKentuckyDistrict 2Republican1993–2009
- Samuel PeytonKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1847–1861
- Samuel WoodsonKentuckyDistrict 2Republican1821–1823
- William EllisKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1889–1895
- William NatcherKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1953–1994
- William SweeneyKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1869–1871
- Willis GreenKentuckyDistrict 2Whig1839–1845
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