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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North Carolina delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeArchibald HendersonNorth Carolina · District 2Federalist1799–1803
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBob EtheridgeNorth Carolina · District 2Democratic1997–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles ThomasNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1871–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeClaude KitchinNorth Carolina · District 2Democratic1901–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCurtis BrogdenNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1877–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid FunderburkNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1995–1997
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid HeatonNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1867–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrederick WoodardNorth Carolina · District 2Democratic1893–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge HoldingNorth Carolina · District 2Republican2013–2021
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge OutlawNorth Carolina · District 21823–1825
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge WhiteNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1897–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry CheathamNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1889–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHutchins BurtonNorth Carolina · District 21819–1825
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames O’HaraNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1883–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJesse BynumNorth Carolina · District 2Democratic1833–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HymanNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1875–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn KerrNorth Carolina · District 2Democratic1923–1953
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph BryanNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1815–1819
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph CaldwellNorth Carolina · District 2Whig1849–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph DixonNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1869–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLawrence FountainNorth Carolina · District 2Democratic1953–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMatthew LockeNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1793–1799
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOrlando HubbsNorth Carolina · District 2Republican1881–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRenee EllmersNorth Carolina · District 2Republican2011–2017
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas RuffinNorth Carolina · District 2Democratic1853–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTim ValentineNorth Carolina · District 2Democratic1983–1995
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam KitchinNorth Carolina · District 2Democratic1879–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWillis AlstonNorth Carolina · District 2Jackson1799–1831
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