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.
New York16
New York delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeBertrand SnellNew York · District 31Republican1915–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeClarence KilburnNew York · District 31Republican1939–1965
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDean TaylorNew York · District 31Republican1943–1961
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDonald MitchellNew York · District 31Republican1973–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdwin MerrittNew York · District 31Republican1911–1915
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdwin ReynoldsNew York · District 31Republican1859–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge HoskinsNew York · District 31Republican1873–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry BrewsterNew York · District 31Republican1895–1899
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJack KempNew York · District 31Republican1971–1989
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames O’GradyNew York · District 31Republican1899–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn SawyerNew York · District 31Republican1885–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn Van VoorhisNew York · District 31Republican1879–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativePorter SheldonNew York · District 31Republican1869–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard CrowleyNew York · District 31Republican1879–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSilas BurroughsNew York · District 31Republican1857–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWallace PierceNew York · District 31Republican1939–1941
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