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 →- Abner HardingIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1865–1869
- Charles HarrisIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1863–1865
- Charles MartinIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1917–1919
- Charles WhartonIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1905–1907
- Charles WoodmanIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1895–1897
- Daniel MillsIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1897–1899
- Edward DerwinskiIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1959–1983
- George AdamsIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1883–1891
- George FosterIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1899–1905
- George O’BrienIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1973–1987
- Harry BeamIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1931–1943
- Jack DavisIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1987–1989
- James BuckleyIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1949–1951
- James KnoxIllinoisDistrict 4Ind. Republican-Democrat1853–1857
- James McDermottIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1907–1917
- John RaineyIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1917–1925
- John SherwinIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1879–1883
- Julius GoldzierIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1893–1895
- Luis GutiérrezIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1993–2019
- Richard MolonyIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1851–1853
- Stephen HurlbutIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1873–1877
- Thomas CusackIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1899–1901
- Thomas DoyleIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1923–1931
- Walter NewberryIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1891–1893
- William KelloggIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1857–1863
- William LathropIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1877–1879
- William McVeyIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1951–1959
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