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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New Jersey delegation →- Charles HaightNew JerseyDistrict 2Democratic1867–1871
- Charles Sandman Jr.New JerseyDistrict 2Republican1967–1975
- Charles SkeltonNew JerseyDistrict 2Democratic1851–1855
- Elmer WeneNew JerseyDistrict 2Democratic1937–1945
- Frank LoBiondoNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1995–2019
- George MiddletonNew JerseyDistrict 2Democratic1863–1865
- George RobbinsNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1855–1859
- George SykesNew JerseyDistrict 2Democratic1843–1847
- Hezekiah SmithNew JerseyDistrict 2Democratic1879–1881
- Isaac BacharachNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1915–1937
- Jacob BakerNew JerseyDistrict 2Democratic1913–1915
- James BuchananNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1885–1893
- John BrewerNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1881–1885
- John GardnerNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1893–1913
- John PughNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1877–1879
- John StrattonNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1859–1863
- Milton GlennNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1957–1965
- Samuel DobbinsNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1873–1877
- Samuel ForkerNew JerseyDistrict 2Democratic1871–1873
- Samuel WrightNew JerseyDistrict 2Whig1845–1847
- Thomas HandNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1945–1957
- Thomas McGrath Jr.New JerseyDistrict 2Democratic1965–1967
- Walter JeffriesNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1939–1941
- William HughesNew JerseyDistrict 2Democratic1975–1995
- William NewellNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1847–1867
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