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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Michigan delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlfred MilnesMichigan · District 3Republican1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeArthur WilliamsMichigan · District 3Republican1923–1927
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAugust JohansenMichigan · District 3Republican1955–1965
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAustin BlairMichigan · District 3Republican1867–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid WalbridgeMichigan · District 3Republican1855–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward LaceyMichigan · District 3Republican1881–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGarry BrownMichigan · District 3Republican1967–1979
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge WillardMichigan · District 3Republican1873–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry KimballMichigan · District 3Republican1935–1937
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames O’DonnellMichigan · District 3Republican1885–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn LongyearMichigan · District 3Republican1863–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn SmithMichigan · District 3Republican1911–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJonas McGowanMichigan · District 3Republican1877–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph HooperMichigan · District 3Republican1925–1935
- Former U.S. RepresentativePaul HenryMichigan · District 3Republican1985–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativePaul ShaferMichigan · District 3Republican1937–1955
- Former U.S. RepresentativePeter MeijerMichigan · District 3Republican2021–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeVerner MainMichigan · District 3Republican1935–1937
- Former U.S. RepresentativeVernon EhlersMichigan · District 3Republican1993–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWashington GardnerMichigan · District 3Republican1899–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam FrankhauserMichigan · District 3Republican1921–1923
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