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.
West Virginia22
West Virginia delegation →- Andrew EdmistonWest VirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1933–1943
- Charles DorrWest VirginiaDistrict 3Republican1897–1899
- Charles SnyderWest VirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1883–1889
- Cleveland BaileyWest VirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1945–1963
- Daniel PolsleyWest VirginiaDistrict 3Republican1867–1869
- David JohnstonWest VirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1899–1901
- David StatonWest VirginiaDistrict 3Republican1981–1983
- Edward RohrboughWest VirginiaDistrict 3Republican1943–1949
- Evan JenkinsWest VirginiaDistrict 3Republican2015–2018
- James HulingWest VirginiaDistrict 3Republican1895–1897
- John AldersonWest VirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1889–1895
- John HutchinsonWest VirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1979–1981
- John Slack Jr.West VirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1959–1981
- John WitcherWest VirginiaDistrict 3Republican1869–1871
- John WolvertonWest VirginiaDistrict 3Republican1925–1931
- Joseph GainesWest VirginiaDistrict 3Republican1901–1911
- Kellian WhaleyWest VirginiaDistrict 3Unconditional Unionist1861–1867
- Lynn HornorWest VirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1931–1935
- Nick Rahall IIWest VirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1977–2015
- Samuel AvisWest VirginiaDistrict 3Republican1913–1915
- Stuart ReedWest VirginiaDistrict 3Republican1917–1925
- William O’BrienWest VirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1927–1929
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