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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Iowa delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeBert BandstraIowa · District 4Democratic1965–1967
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrederick BiermannIowa · District 4Democratic1933–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGilbert HaugenIowa · District 4Republican1899–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGreg GanskeIowa · District 4Republican1995–2003
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry PrattIowa · District 4Republican1873–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn KylIowa · District 4Republican1959–1973
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph SweneyIowa · District 4Republican1889–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJosiah GrinnellIowa · District 4Republican1863–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeKarl Le CompteIowa · District 4Republican1939–1959
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLuman WellerIowa · District 4National Greenbacker1883–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMadison WaldenIowa · District 4Republican1871–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNathaniel DeeringIowa · District 4Republican1877–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNeal SmithIowa · District 4Democratic1959–1995
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSteve KingIowa · District 4Republican2003–2021
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSteven CarterIowa · District 4Democratic1959–1961
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas UpdegraffIowa · District 4Republican1879–1899
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWalter ButlerIowa · District 4Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam FullerIowa · District 4Republican1885–1889
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