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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South Carolina delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander SimsSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1845–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander WallaceSouth Carolina · District 4Republican1869–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew GovanSouth Carolina · District 4Jackson1821–1827
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBob InglisSouth Carolina · District 4Republican1993–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCarroll Campbell Jr.South Carolina · District 4Republican1979–1987
- Former U.S. RepresentativeElizabeth PattersonSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1987–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGabriel Mahon Jr.South Carolina · District 4Democratic1935–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge ShellSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1891–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames GossSouth Carolina · District 4Republican1867–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames MannSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1969–1979
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames OverstreetSouth Carolina · District 4Republican1819–1823
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn BrattonSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1883–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn CampbellSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1829–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn ChappellSouth Carolina · District 4Republican1813–1817
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn EvinsSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1877–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn FelderSouth Carolina · District 4Nullifier1831–1835
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn McSwainSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1921–1937
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph BellingerSouth Carolina · District 4Republican1817–1819
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph BrysonSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1939–1955
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph JohnsonSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1901–1917
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMilledge BonhamSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1857–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeO’Brien SmithSouth Carolina · District 4Republican1805–1807
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert AshmoreSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1953–1969
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSampson ButlerSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1839–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel NichollsSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1915–1921
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel TrottiSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1841–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeStanyarne WilsonSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1895–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTrey GowdySouth Carolina · District 4Republican2011–2019
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWade HamptonSouth Carolina · District 4Republican1795–1805
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam MartinSouth Carolina · District 4Jackson1827–1831
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam PerrySouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1885–1891
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