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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Michigan delegation →- Carl PursellMichiganDistrict 2Republican1977–1993
- Charles UpsonMichiganDistrict 2Republican1863–1869
- David NobleMichiganDistrict 2Democratic1853–1855
- Earl MichenerMichiganDistrict 2Republican1919–1951
- Edward AllenMichiganDistrict 2Republican1887–1891
- Edward BradleyMichiganDistrict 2Democratic1847–1849
- Edwin WillitsMichiganDistrict 2Republican1877–1883
- George MeaderMichiganDistrict 2Republican1951–1965
- George SpaldingMichiganDistrict 2Republican1895–1899
- Henry SmithMichiganDistrict 2Republican1899–1903
- Henry WaldronMichiganDistrict 2Republican1855–1877
- James GormanMichiganDistrict 2Democratic1891–1895
- John ChipmanMichiganDistrict 2Democratic1845–1847
- John LehrMichiganDistrict 2Democratic1933–1935
- Mark BaconMichiganDistrict 2Republican1917–1919
- Marvin EschMichiganDistrict 2Republican1967–1977
- Nathaniel EldredgeMichiganDistrict 2Democratic1883–1887
- Pete HoekstraMichiganDistrict 2Republican1993–2011
- Samuel BeakesMichiganDistrict 2Democratic1913–1919
- Weston VivianMichiganDistrict 2Democratic1965–1967
- William SpragueMichiganDistrict 2Whig1849–1851
- William StoughtonMichiganDistrict 2Republican1869–1873
- William WedemeyerMichiganDistrict 2Republican1911–1913
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