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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New Jersey delegation →- Allan WalshNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1913–1915
- Alvah ClarkNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1877–1881
- Andrew RogersNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1863–1867
- Benjamin HoweyNew JerseyDistrict 4Republican1883–1885
- Charles BrowneNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1923–1925
- Charles HowellNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1949–1955
- David PowersNew JerseyDistrict 4Republican1933–1947
- De FlanaganNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1901–1903
- Elijah HutchinsonNew JerseyDistrict 4Republican1915–1923
- Frank Mathews Jr.New JerseyDistrict 4Republican1945–1949
- Frank Thompson Jr.New JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1955–1981
- George BrownNew JerseyDistrict 4Whig1851–1853
- George CobbNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1861–1863
- George VailNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1853–1857
- Henry HarrisNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1881–1883
- Ira WoodNew JerseyDistrict 4Republican1903–1913
- James ImlayNew JerseyDistrict 4Federalist1797–1801
- James PidcockNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1885–1889
- Jetur RiggsNew JerseyDistrict 4Anti-Lecompton Democrat1859–1861
- John HuylerNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1857–1859
- John Van DykeNew JerseyDistrict 4Whig1847–1851
- Johnston CornishNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1893–1895
- Joshua SalmonNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1899–1903
- Littleton KirkpatrickNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1843–1845
- Mahlon PitneyNew JerseyDistrict 4Republican1895–1899
- Robert HamiltonNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1873–1877
- Samuel FowlerNew JerseyDistrict 4Democratic1889–1893
- William LanningNew JerseyDistrict 4Republican1903–1905
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