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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Virginia delegation →- A. McEachinVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic2017–2022
- Benjamin HooperVirginiaDistrict 4Readjuster1883–1885
- Edmund HubardVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1841–1847
- Edward VenableVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1889–1891
- Francis LassiterVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1899–1911
- Francis PrestonVirginiaDistrict 4Republican1793–1797
- George BookerVirginiaDistrict 4Conservative1869–1871
- J. ForbesVirginiaDistrict 4Republican2001–2017
- Jacob SwoopeVirginiaDistrict 4Federalist1809–1811
- James BradyVirginiaDistrict 4Republican1885–1887
- James EpesVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1891–1895
- James GholsonVirginiaDistrict 4Anti Jacksonian1833–1835
- John LangstonVirginiaDistrict 4Republican1889–1891
- Joseph JorgensenVirginiaDistrict 4Republican1877–1883
- Mark AlexanderVirginiaDistrict 4Jackson1819–1833
- Norman SisiskyVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1983–2001
- Patrick DrewryVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1919–1949
- Robert Daniel Jr.VirginiaDistrict 4Republican1973–1983
- Robert SouthallVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1903–1907
- Robert ThorpVirginiaDistrict 4Republican1895–1899
- Robert TurnbullVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1909–1913
- Roger PryorVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1859–1861
- Sydney EpesVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1897–1901
- Walter WatsonVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1913–1921
- Watkins AbbittVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1947–1973
- William GainesVirginiaDistrict 4Republican1887–1889
- William GoodeVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1841–1861
- William McKenneyVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1895–1897
- William StowellVirginiaDistrict 4Republican1871–1877
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