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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Pennsylvania delegation →- Alexander TaylorPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1873–1875
- Augustine KelleyPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Democratic1941–1959
- Charles BarclayPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1907–1911
- Charles BoylePennsylvaniaDistrict 21Democratic1883–1887
- Charles PattonPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1911–1915
- Charles RowlandPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1915–1919
- Chester GrossPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1939–1949
- Cornelius DarraghPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Whig1843–1847
- Daniel HeinerPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1893–1897
- David RitchiePennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1853–1859
- Donald BaileyPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Democratic1979–1983
- Evan JonesPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1919–1923
- Henry FosterPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Democratic1843–1873
- Isaac LeetPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Democratic1839–1841
- Jacob TurneyPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Democratic1875–1879
- James LindPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Democratic1949–1953
- John CovodePennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1855–1871
- John DawsonPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Democratic1851–1867
- John DentPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Democratic1957–1979
- Joseph LawrencePennsylvaniaDistrict 21Whig1825–1843
- Morgan WisePennsylvaniaDistrict 21Democratic1879–1883
- Moses HamptonPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Whig1847–1851
- Samuel CraigPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1889–1891
- Solomon DresserPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1903–1907
- Summers JackPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1899–1903
- Thomas McKennanPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Whig1831–1843
- Thomas RidgePennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1983–1995
- Welty McCulloghPennsylvaniaDistrict 21Republican1887–1889
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