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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West Virginia delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander MooneyWest Virginia · District 2Republican2015–2025
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlston DaytonWest Virginia · District 2Republican1895–1907
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin MartinWest Virginia · District 2Democratic1877–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBethuel KitchenWest Virginia · District 2Republican1867–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCleveland BenedictWest Virginia · District 2Republican1981–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge BowersWest Virginia · District 2Republican1915–1923
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge LathamWest Virginia · District 2Unconditional Unionist1865–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge SturgissWest Virginia · District 2Republican1907–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarley StaggersWest Virginia · District 2Democratic1949–1981
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarley Staggers Jr.West Virginia · District 2Democratic1983–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames McGrewWest Virginia · District 2Republican1869–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HagansWest Virginia · District 2Republican1873–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HogeWest Virginia · District 2Democratic1881–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMelvin SnyderWest Virginia · District 2Republican1947–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert AllenWest Virginia · District 2Democratic1923–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert Wise Jr.West Virginia · District 2Democratic1983–2001
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas DavisWest Virginia · District 2Democratic1905–1907
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam Brown Jr.West Virginia · District 2Democratic1911–1917
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam WilsonWest Virginia · District 2Democratic1883–1895
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