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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Massachusetts delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeArtemas WardMassachusetts · District 21791–1795
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin CrowninshieldMassachusetts · District 21823–1831
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin HarrisMassachusetts · District 2Republican1873–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin Pickman Jr.Massachusetts · District 2Federalist1809–1811
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles ClasonMassachusetts · District 2Republican1937–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel KingMassachusetts · District 2Whig1843–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward BolandMassachusetts · District 2Democratic1953–1989
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrancis FayMassachusetts · District 2Whig1851–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge ChurchillMassachusetts · District 2Republican1925–1927
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGideon BarstowMassachusetts · District 2Republican1821–1823
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry BowlesMassachusetts · District 2Republican1925–1929
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJacob CrowninshieldMassachusetts · District 2Republican1803–1809
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn FurcoloMassachusetts · District 2Democratic1949–1953
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn LongMassachusetts · District 2Republican1883–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph StoryMassachusetts · District 2Republican1807–1809
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLeverett SaltonstallMassachusetts · District 2Whig1837–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOakes AmesMassachusetts · District 2Republican1863–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel CrockerMassachusetts · District 2Whig1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeStephen PhillipsMassachusetts · District 2Whig1833–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam GranfieldMassachusetts · District 2Democratic1929–1937
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam KaynorMassachusetts · District 2Republican1929–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam LymanMassachusetts · District 2Republican1793–1797
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam ReedMassachusetts · District 2Federalist1811–1815
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam ShepardMassachusetts · District 2Federalist1797–1803
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