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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Texas delegation →- Brady GentryTexasDistrict 3Democratic1953–1957
- Charles YoakumTexasDistrict 3Democratic1895–1897
- Constantine KilgoreTexasDistrict 3Democratic1887–1895
- Gordon RussellTexasDistrict 3Democratic1901–1911
- James CollinsTexasDistrict 3Republican1967–1983
- James JonesTexasDistrict 3Democratic1883–1887
- James YoungTexasDistrict 3Democratic1911–1921
- Joe PoolTexasDistrict 3Democratic1963–1969
- Lindley Beckworth Sr.TexasDistrict 3Democratic1939–1967
- Morgan SandersTexasDistrict 3Democratic1921–1939
- Reese De GraffenreidTexasDistrict 3Democratic1897–1903
- Robert LivelyTexasDistrict 3Democratic1909–1911
- Sam JohnsonTexasDistrict 3Republican1991–2019
- Steve BartlettTexasDistrict 3Republican1983–1991
- Van TaylorTexasDistrict 3Republican2019–2023
- William ClarkTexasDistrict 3Republican1869–1873
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