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 →- Aedanus BurkeSouth CarolinaDistrict 21789–1791
- Albert WatsonSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Republican1963–1971
- Alonzo RansierSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Republican1873–1875
- Charles ButtzSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Republican1875–1877
- Christopher BowenSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Republican1867–1871
- Corinne RileySouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1961–1963
- Floyd SpenceSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Republican1971–2001
- George CroftSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1903–1905
- George TillmanSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1879–1893
- Hampton FulmerSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1921–1945
- Hugo Sims Jr.South CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1949–1951
- James Hamilton Jr.South CarolinaDistrict 2Jackson1821–1829
- James PattersonSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1905–1911
- John RileySouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1945–1963
- John Rutledge Jr.South CarolinaDistrict 2Federalist1797–1803
- Michael O’ConnorSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1879–1883
- Richard CainSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Republican1873–1879
- Richard SimpsonSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1843–1849
- Robert BarnwellSouth CarolinaDistrict 21791–1793
- Robert De LargeSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Republican1871–1873
- Theodore CroftSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1903–1905
- Willa FulmerSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1943–1945
- William AikenSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1851–1857
- William ButlerSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Republican1801–1813
- William GraysonSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Nullifier1833–1837
- William LowndesSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Republican1811–1823
- William MilesSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1857–1861
- William TalbertSouth CarolinaDistrict 2Democratic1893–1903
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