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 →- Artemas WardMassachusettsDistrict 21791–1795
- Benjamin CrowninshieldMassachusettsDistrict 21823–1831
- Benjamin HarrisMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1873–1883
- Benjamin Pickman Jr.MassachusettsDistrict 2Federalist1809–1811
- Charles ClasonMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1937–1949
- Daniel KingMassachusettsDistrict 2Whig1843–1851
- Edward BolandMassachusettsDistrict 2Democratic1953–1989
- Francis FayMassachusettsDistrict 2Whig1851–1853
- George ChurchillMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1925–1927
- Gideon BarstowMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1821–1823
- Henry BowlesMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1925–1929
- Jacob CrowninshieldMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1803–1809
- John FurcoloMassachusettsDistrict 2Democratic1949–1953
- John LongMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1883–1889
- Joseph StoryMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1807–1809
- Leverett SaltonstallMassachusettsDistrict 2Whig1837–1843
- Oakes AmesMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1863–1873
- Samuel CrockerMassachusettsDistrict 2Whig1853–1855
- Stephen PhillipsMassachusettsDistrict 2Whig1833–1839
- William GranfieldMassachusettsDistrict 2Democratic1929–1937
- William KaynorMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1929–1931
- William LymanMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1793–1797
- William ReedMassachusettsDistrict 2Federalist1811–1815
- William ShepardMassachusettsDistrict 2Federalist1797–1803
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