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 →- A. FosterNew YorkDistrict 23Whig1841–1843
- Albert RossdaleNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1921–1923
- Bennet BicknellNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1837–1839
- Bruce CaputoNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1977–1979
- Caleb LyonNew YorkDistrict 23Independent1853–1855
- Charles BuckleyNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1935–1965
- Charles HoardNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1857–1861
- Cyrus PrescottNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1879–1883
- Daniel OliverNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1917–1919
- Dennis McCarthyNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1867–1871
- Edward RogersNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1839–1841
- Elisha LitchfieldNew YorkDistrict 231821–1825
- Frank OliverNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1923–1935
- Freeborn JewettNew YorkDistrict 23Jackson1831–1833
- George SouthwickNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1895–1911
- Henry BentleyNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1891–1893
- Henry De ForestNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1911–1913
- Isidore DollingerNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1949–1961
- John McHughNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1993–2009
- John SpriggsNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1883–1887
- John WeverNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1891–1895
- Jonas Earll Jr.New YorkDistrict 23Jackson1827–1831
- Joseph GouldenNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1903–1917
- Joseph SempolinskiNew YorkDistrict 23Republican2022–2023
- Leander BabcockNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1851–1853
- Louis EmersonNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1899–1903
- Luther BadgerNew YorkDistrict 23Adams1825–1827
- Nehemiah EarllNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1839–1841
- Orville RobinsonNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1843–1845
- Peter PeyserNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1971–1983
- Richard McKiniryNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1919–1921
- Samuel StrattonNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1959–1989
- Scott LordNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1875–1877
- Thomas DavisNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1863–1867
- Tom ReedNew YorkDistrict 23Republican2010–2022
- Victory BirdseyeNew YorkDistrict 23Whig1815–1843
- Wallace Foote Jr.New YorkDistrict 23Republican1895–1899
- Walter LynchNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1939–1951
- William BaconNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1877–1879
- William BennetNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1905–1917
- William DuerNew YorkDistrict 23Whig1847–1851
- William FullerNew YorkDistrict 23Jackson1833–1837
- William GilbertNew YorkDistrict 23Ind. Republican-Democrat1855–1857
- William HoughNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1845–1847
- William LansingNew YorkDistrict 23Republican1861–1875
- William TaylorNew YorkDistrict 23Democratic1833–1839
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