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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Louisiana delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlcée La BrancheLouisiana · District 2Democratic1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBannon ThibodeauxLouisiana · District 2Whig1845–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCedric RichmondLouisiana · District 2Democratic2011–2021
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles BuckLouisiana · District 2Democratic1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEzekiel EllisLouisiana · District 2Democratic1875–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHamilton ColemanLouisiana · District 2Republican1889–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry BullardLouisiana · District 2Whig1831–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry DupréLouisiana · District 2Democratic1909–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry GurleyLouisiana · District 21823–1831
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames MannLouisiana · District 2Democratic1867–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames SpearingLouisiana · District 2Democratic1923–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph CaoLouisiana · District 2Republican2009–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph LandryLouisiana · District 2Whig1851–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLindy BoggsLouisiana · District 2Democratic1973–1991
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLionel SheldonLouisiana · District 2Republican1869–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMatthew LaganLouisiana · District 2Democratic1887–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMichael HahnLouisiana · District 2Republican1861–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMiles TaylorLouisiana · District 2Democratic1855–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNathaniel WallaceLouisiana · District 2Democratic1885–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativePaul MaloneyLouisiana · District 2Democratic1931–1947
- Former U.S. RepresentativePhilemon ThomasLouisiana · District 21831–1835
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert DaveyLouisiana · District 2Democratic1893–1909
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel GilmoreLouisiana · District 2Democratic1909–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTheodore HuntLouisiana · District 2Whig1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas Boggs Sr.Louisiana · District 2Democratic1941–1972
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas ChinnLouisiana · District 2Whig1839–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam JeffersonLouisiana · District 2Democratic1991–2009
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