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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Connecticut delegation →- Abner SibalConnecticutDistrict 4Republican1961–1965
- Albert AustinConnecticutDistrict 4Republican1939–1941
- Albert MoranoConnecticutDistrict 4Republican1951–1959
- Alfred PhillipsConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1937–1939
- Christopher ShaysConnecticutDistrict 4Republican1987–2009
- Clare LuceConnecticutDistrict 4Republican1943–1947
- Donald IrwinConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1959–1969
- Ebenezer HillConnecticutDistrict 4Republican1895–1919
- Edward SeymourConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1883–1887
- Frederick MilesConnecticutDistrict 4Republican1879–1891
- George WoodruffConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1861–1863
- Jeremiah DonovanConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1913–1915
- John HubbardConnecticutDistrict 4Republican1863–1867
- John LodgeConnecticutDistrict 4Republican1947–1951
- Le DownsConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1941–1943
- Levi WarnerConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1875–1879
- Miles GrangerConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1887–1889
- Origen SeymourConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1851–1855
- Robert De ForestConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1891–1895
- Samuel SimonsConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1843–1845
- Schuyler MerrittConnecticutDistrict 4Republican1917–1937
- Stewart McKinneyConnecticutDistrict 4Republican1971–1987
- Thomas ButlerConnecticutDistrict 4Whig1849–1851
- Thomas OsborneConnecticutDistrict 4Whig1839–1843
- Thomas WhittleseyConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1835–1839
- William BishopConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1857–1859
- William TierneyConnecticutDistrict 4Democratic1931–1933
- William WelchConnecticutDistrict 4American1855–1857
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