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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Tennessee delegation →- Abraham McClellanTennesseeDistrict 2Democratic1837–1843
- Henry GibsonTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1895–1905
- Howard BakerTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1951–1965
- Irene BakerTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1963–1965
- Jacob ThornburghTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1873–1879
- James TaylorTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1919–1941
- Jimmy Duncan Jr.TennesseeDistrict 2Republican1988–2019
- John CockeTennesseeDistrict 2Jackson1819–1827
- John DuncanTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1965–1988
- John HoukTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1891–1895
- John Jennings Jr.TennesseeDistrict 2Republican1939–1951
- Leonidas HoukTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1879–1893
- Nathan HaleTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1905–1909
- Pleasant MillerTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1809–1811
- Pryor LeaTennesseeDistrict 2Jackson1827–1831
- Richard AustinTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1909–1919
- Samuel BunchTennesseeDistrict 2Jacksonian1833–1837
- William BlountTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1815–1819
- William ChurchwellTennesseeDistrict 2Democratic1851–1855
- William CockeTennesseeDistrict 2Whig1845–1849
- William SenterTennesseeDistrict 2Whig1843–1845
- William SneedTennesseeDistrict 2American1855–1857
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