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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Mississippi delegation →- Aaron FordMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1935–1943
- Andrew FoxMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1897–1903
- Charles DowdyMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1981–1989
- Clarke LewisMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1889–1893
- Frederick BarryMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1885–1889
- Gene TaylorMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1989–2011
- Jason NilesMississippiDistrict 4Republican1873–1875
- Jon HinsonMississippiDistrict 4Republican1979–1983
- Mike ParkerMississippiDistrict 4Republican1989–1999
- Prentiss WalkerMississippiDistrict 4Republican1965–1967
- Ronnie ShowsMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1999–2003
- Steven PalazzoMississippiDistrict 4Republican2011–2023
- Thomas BusbyMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1923–1935
- Thomas SissonMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1909–1923
- Wiley HarrisMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1853–1855
- William LakeMississippiDistrict 4American1855–1857
- William WinsteadMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1943–1965
- Wilson HillMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1903–1909
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