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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Massachusetts delegation →- Asahel StearnsMassachusettsDistrict 4Federalist1815–1817
- Barney FrankMassachusettsDistrict 4Democratic1981–2013
- Benjamin ThompsonMassachusettsDistrict 4Whig1845–1853
- Charles TirrellMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1901–1911
- George StobbsMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1925–1931
- George WeymouthMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1897–1901
- John PalfreyMassachusettsDistrict 4Whig1847–1849
- Joseph Kennedy IIIMassachusettsDistrict 4Democratic2013–2021
- Josiah AbbottMassachusettsDistrict 4Democratic1875–1877
- Levi LincolnMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1799–1803
- Lewis ApsleyMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1893–1897
- Linus CominsMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1855–1859
- Lorenzo SabineMassachusettsDistrict 4Whig1851–1853
- Patrick CollinsMassachusettsDistrict 4Democratic1883–1889
- Pehr HolmesMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1931–1947
- Robert DrinanMassachusettsDistrict 4Democratic1971–1981
- Rufus FrostMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1875–1877
- Samuel DanaMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1813–1815
- Samuel HoarMassachusettsDistrict 4Whig1835–1837
- Samuel HooperMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1861–1875
- Samuel WalleyMassachusettsDistrict 4Whig1853–1855
- Samuel WinslowMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1913–1925
- Timothy FullerMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1817–1825
- William ParmenterMassachusettsDistrict 4Democratic1837–1845
- William RichardsonMassachusettsDistrict 4Republican1811–1815
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