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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Illinois delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAbner HardingIllinois · District 4Republican1865–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles HarrisIllinois · District 4Democratic1863–1865
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles MartinIllinois · District 4Democratic1917–1919
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles WhartonIllinois · District 4Republican1905–1907
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles WoodmanIllinois · District 4Republican1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel MillsIllinois · District 4Republican1897–1899
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward DerwinskiIllinois · District 4Republican1959–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge AdamsIllinois · District 4Republican1883–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge FosterIllinois · District 4Democratic1899–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge O’BrienIllinois · District 4Republican1973–1987
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarry BeamIllinois · District 4Democratic1931–1943
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJack DavisIllinois · District 4Republican1987–1989
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames BuckleyIllinois · District 4Democratic1949–1951
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames KnoxIllinois · District 4Ind. Republican-Democrat1853–1857
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames McDermottIllinois · District 4Democratic1907–1917
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn RaineyIllinois · District 4Democratic1917–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn SherwinIllinois · District 4Republican1879–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJulius GoldzierIllinois · District 4Democratic1893–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLuis GutiérrezIllinois · District 4Democratic1993–2019
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard MolonyIllinois · District 4Democratic1851–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeStephen HurlbutIllinois · District 4Republican1873–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas CusackIllinois · District 4Democratic1899–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas DoyleIllinois · District 4Democratic1923–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWalter NewberryIllinois · District 4Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam KelloggIllinois · District 4Republican1857–1863
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam LathropIllinois · District 4Republican1877–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam McVeyIllinois · District 4Republican1951–1959
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