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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South Carolina delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAedanus BurkeSouth Carolina · District 21789–1791
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlbert WatsonSouth Carolina · District 2Republican1963–1971
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlonzo RansierSouth Carolina · District 2Republican1873–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles ButtzSouth Carolina · District 2Republican1875–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeChristopher BowenSouth Carolina · District 2Republican1867–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCorinne RileySouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1961–1963
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFloyd SpenceSouth Carolina · District 2Republican1971–2001
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge CroftSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1903–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge TillmanSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1879–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHampton FulmerSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1921–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHugo Sims Jr.South Carolina · District 2Democratic1949–1951
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames Hamilton Jr.South Carolina · District 2Jackson1821–1829
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames PattersonSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1905–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn RileySouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1945–1963
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn Rutledge Jr.South Carolina · District 2Federalist1797–1803
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMichael O’ConnorSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1879–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard CainSouth Carolina · District 2Republican1873–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard SimpsonSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1843–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert BarnwellSouth Carolina · District 21791–1793
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert De LargeSouth Carolina · District 2Republican1871–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTheodore CroftSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1903–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilla FulmerSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1943–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam AikenSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1851–1857
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam ButlerSouth Carolina · District 2Republican1801–1813
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam GraysonSouth Carolina · District 2Nullifier1833–1837
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam LowndesSouth Carolina · District 2Republican1811–1823
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam MilesSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1857–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam TalbertSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1893–1903
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