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 York delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAddison LaflinNew York · District 20Republican1865–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAmbrose ClarkNew York · District 20Republican1861–1865
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin GilmanNew York · District 20Republican1973–2003
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCaleb BakerNew York · District 20Republican1819–1821
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel AveryNew York · District 20Republican1811–1817
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel CrugerNew York · District 20Republican1817–1819
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEnos ThroopNew York · District 20Republican1815–1817
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFiorello La GuardiaNew York · District 20Republican1917–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge WestNew York · District 20Republican1881–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry HathornNew York · District 20Republican1873–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeIsaac SiegelNew York · District 20Republican1915–1923
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn SanfordNew York · District 20Republican1889–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn StarinNew York · District 20Republican1877–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn SweeneyNew York · District 20Republican1999–2007
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJonathan RichmondNew York · District 20Republican1819–1821
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph DioGuardiNew York · District 20Republican1985–1989
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOliver ComstockNew York · District 20Republican1813–1819
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOrsamus MattesonNew York · District 20Republican1849–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas BradleyNew York · District 20Republican1903–1913
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