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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Alabama delegation →- Benjamin NorrisAlabamaDistrict 3Republican1867–1869
- Bob RileyAlabamaDistrict 3Republican1997–2003
- Charles PelhamAlabamaDistrict 3Republican1873–1875
- David CloptonAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1859–1861
- Elizabeth AndrewsAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1971–1973
- George AndrewsAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1943–1973
- George CrabbAlabamaDistrict 3Whig1837–1841
- George HarrisonAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1893–1897
- George OwenAlabamaDistrict 3Jackson1823–1829
- Henry ClaytonAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1897–1915
- Henry SteagallAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1915–1945
- James CottrellAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1845–1847
- James DowdellAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1853–1859
- Jeremiah WilliamsAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1875–1879
- Joab LawlerAlabamaDistrict 3Whig1835–1839
- John BrowderAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1989–1997
- Robert HeflinAlabamaDistrict 3Republican1869–1871
- Samuel MardisAlabamaDistrict 3Jackson1831–1835
- Taul BradfordAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1875–1877
- William HandleyAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1871–1873
- William MulkeyAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1913–1915
- William NicholsAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1967–1989
- William OatesAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1881–1895
- William SamfordAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1879–1881
- William YanceyAlabamaDistrict 3Democratic1843–1847
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