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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Connecticut delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlbert CretellaConnecticut · District 3Republican1953–1959
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlfred BurnhamConnecticut · District 3Republican1859–1863
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAugustus BrandegeeConnecticut · District 3Republican1863–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBruce MorrisonConnecticut · District 3Democratic1983–1991
- Former U.S. RepresentativeC. ComptonConnecticut · District 3Republican1943–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles RussellConnecticut · District 3Republican1887–1903
- Former U.S. RepresentativeChauncey ClevelandConnecticut · District 3Democratic1849–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdwin HigginsConnecticut · District 3Republican1905–1913
- Former U.S. RepresentativeElisha HaleyConnecticut · District 3Democratic1835–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEllsworth FooteConnecticut · District 3Republican1947–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge CatlinConnecticut · District 3Democratic1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry StarkweatherConnecticut · District 3Republican1867–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames GeelanConnecticut · District 3Democratic1945–1947
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames ShanleyConnecticut · District 3Democratic1935–1943
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn McGuireConnecticut · District 3Democratic1949–1953
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn RockwellConnecticut · District 3Whig1845–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn TilsonConnecticut · District 3Republican1909–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn WaitConnecticut · District 3Republican1875–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLawrence DeNardisConnecticut · District 3Republican1981–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNathan BelcherConnecticut · District 3Democratic1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert GiaimoConnecticut · District 3Democratic1959–1981
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSidney DeanConnecticut · District 3Republican1855–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas ReillyConnecticut · District 3Democratic1911–1915
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas WilliamsConnecticut · District 3Whig1839–1843
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