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 →- Alcée La BrancheLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1843–1845
- Bannon ThibodeauxLouisianaDistrict 2Whig1845–1849
- Cedric RichmondLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic2011–2021
- Charles BuckLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1895–1897
- Ezekiel EllisLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1875–1885
- Hamilton ColemanLouisianaDistrict 2Republican1889–1891
- Henry BullardLouisianaDistrict 2Whig1831–1851
- Henry DupréLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1909–1925
- Henry GurleyLouisianaDistrict 21823–1831
- James MannLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1867–1869
- James SpearingLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1923–1931
- Joseph CaoLouisianaDistrict 2Republican2009–2011
- Joseph LandryLouisianaDistrict 2Whig1851–1853
- Lindy BoggsLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1973–1991
- Lionel SheldonLouisianaDistrict 2Republican1869–1875
- Matthew LaganLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1887–1893
- Michael HahnLouisianaDistrict 2Republican1861–1887
- Miles TaylorLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1855–1861
- Nathaniel WallaceLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1885–1887
- Paul MaloneyLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1931–1947
- Philemon ThomasLouisianaDistrict 21831–1835
- Robert DaveyLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1893–1909
- Samuel GilmoreLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1909–1911
- Theodore HuntLouisianaDistrict 2Whig1853–1855
- Thomas Boggs Sr.LouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1941–1972
- Thomas ChinnLouisianaDistrict 2Whig1839–1841
- William JeffersonLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1991–2009
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