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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Kentucky delegation →- Aaron HardingKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1861–1867
- Albert TalbottKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1855–1859
- Alexander MontgomeryKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1887–1895
- Aylette BucknerKentuckyDistrict 4Whig1847–1849
- Ben JohnsonKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1907–1927
- Bryan OwsleyKentuckyDistrict 4Whig1841–1843
- Cap CardenKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1931–1937
- Chester CarrierKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1943–1945
- David SmithKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1897–1907
- Edward CrealKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1935–1945
- Frank ChelfKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1945–1967
- Geoff DavisKentuckyDistrict 4Republican2005–2012
- George CaldwellKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1843–1851
- Henry MoormanKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1927–1929
- James ChrismanKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1853–1855
- James KnottKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1867–1883
- John CraddockKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1929–1931
- John LewisKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1895–1897
- Joseph DeshaKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1807–1819
- Joshua BellKentuckyDistrict 4Whig1845–1847
- Ken LucasKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1999–2005
- Marion SnyderKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1963–1987
- Martin BeatyKentuckyDistrict 4Anti Jackson1833–1835
- Sherrod WilliamsKentuckyDistrict 4Whig1835–1841
- Thomas RobertsonKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1883–1887
- Thomas SandfordKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1803–1807
- William AndersonKentuckyDistrict 4Ind. Republican-Democrat1859–1861
- William ReadKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1871–1875
- William WardKentuckyDistrict 4Whig1851–1853
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