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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New York delegation →- Abner HazeltineNew YorkDistrict 31Whig1833–1837
- Abner LewisNew YorkDistrict 31Whig1845–1847
- Asher TylerNew YorkDistrict 31Whig1843–1845
- Bertrand SnellNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1915–1939
- Charles BenedictNew YorkDistrict 31Democratic1877–1879
- Clarence KilburnNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1939–1965
- Dean TaylorNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1943–1961
- Donald MitchellNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1973–1983
- Dudley MarvinNew YorkDistrict 31Whig1823–1849
- Edwin MerrittNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1911–1915
- Edwin ReynoldsNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1859–1861
- Elijah RisleyNew YorkDistrict 31Whig1849–1851
- Frederick MartinNew YorkDistrict 31Whig1851–1853
- George HoskinsNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1873–1877
- Henry BrewsterNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1895–1899
- Jack KempNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1971–1989
- James O’GradyNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1899–1901
- John SawyerNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1885–1891
- John Van VoorhisNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1879–1895
- Porter SheldonNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1869–1871
- Richard CrowleyNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1879–1883
- Richard MarvinNew YorkDistrict 31Whig1837–1841
- Robert StevensNew YorkDistrict 31Democratic1883–1885
- Silas BurroughsNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1857–1861
- Staley ClarkeNew YorkDistrict 31Whig1841–1843
- Thomas FlaglerNew YorkDistrict 31Ind. Republican-Democrat1853–1857
- Wallace PierceNew YorkDistrict 31Republican1939–1941
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