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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North Carolina delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAbsalom TatomNorth Carolina · District 4Republican1795–1797
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander MebaneNorth Carolina · District 41793–1795
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAugustine ShepperdNorth Carolina · District 4Whig1827–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin BunnNorth Carolina · District 4Democratic1889–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles ShepardNorth Carolina · District 4Democratic1837–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid PriceNorth Carolina · District 4Democratic1987–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward PouNorth Carolina · District 4Democratic1901–1935
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFred HeinemanNorth Carolina · District 4Republican1995–1997
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarold CooleyNorth Carolina · District 4Democratic1933–1967
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHugh WilliamsonNorth Carolina · District 4Federalist1789–1793
- Former U.S. RepresentativeIke AndrewsNorth Carolina · District 4Democratic1973–1985
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames GardnerNorth Carolina · District 4Republican1967–1969
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames MoreheadNorth Carolina · District 4Whig1851–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJesse SlocumbNorth Carolina · District 4Federalist1817–1821
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn AtwaterNorth Carolina · District 4Populist1899–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn BryanNorth Carolina · District 4Adams1825–1829
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn DeweeseNorth Carolina · District 4Republican1867–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn Manning Jr.North Carolina · District 4Democratic1869–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn NicholsNorth Carolina · District 4Independent1887–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn StanlyNorth Carolina · District 4Federalist1801–1811
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph DavisNorth Carolina · District 4Democratic1875–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLawrence BranchNorth Carolina · District 4Democratic1855–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNick GalifianakisNorth Carolina · District 4Democratic1967–1973
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard Spaight Jr.North Carolina · District 41823–1825
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSion RogersNorth Carolina · District 4Democratic1853–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam BlackledgeNorth Carolina · District 4Republican1803–1813
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam BlackledgeNorth Carolina · District 4Republican1819–1823
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam Cobey Jr.North Carolina · District 4Republican1985–1987
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam CoxNorth Carolina · District 4Democratic1881–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam GastonNorth Carolina · District 4Federalist1813–1817
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam SmithNorth Carolina · District 4Republican1873–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam StrowdNorth Carolina · District 4Populist1895–1899
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam StrudwickNorth Carolina · District 4Federalist1795–1797
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam WashingtonNorth Carolina · District 4Whig1841–1843
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