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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Iowa delegation →- Albert WillfordIowaDistrict 3Democratic1933–1935
- Benjamin BirdsallIowaDistrict 3Republican1903–1909
- Burton SweetIowaDistrict 3Republican1915–1923
- Charles PickettIowaDistrict 3Republican1909–1913
- Cynthia AxneIowaDistrict 3Democratic2019–2023
- David HendersonIowaDistrict 3Republican1883–1903
- David NagleIowaDistrict 3Democratic1987–1993
- David YoungIowaDistrict 3Republican2015–2019
- Harold GrossIowaDistrict 3Republican1949–1975
- James LightfootIowaDistrict 3Republican1985–1997
- John GwynneIowaDistrict 3Republican1935–1949
- Leonard BoswellIowaDistrict 3Democratic1997–2013
- Lucien AinsworthIowaDistrict 3Democratic1875–1877
- Maurice ConnollyIowaDistrict 3Democratic1913–1915
- Theodore BurdickIowaDistrict 3Republican1877–1879
- Thomas EvansIowaDistrict 3Republican1981–1987
- Thomas RobinsonIowaDistrict 3Republican1923–1933
- Tom LathamIowaDistrict 3Republican1995–2015
- William DonnanIowaDistrict 3Republican1871–1875
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