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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Wisconsin delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander MitchellWisconsin · District 4Democratic1871–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeClement ZablockiWisconsin · District 4Democratic1949–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry SmithWisconsin · District 4Union1887–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeIsaac Van SchaickWisconsin · District 4Republican1885–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJerry KleczkaWisconsin · District 4Democratic1983–2005
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn BrophyWisconsin · District 4Republican1947–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn KleczkaWisconsin · District 4Republican1919–1923
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn SchaferWisconsin · District 4Republican1923–1941
- Former U.S. RepresentativePeter DeusterWisconsin · District 4Democratic1879–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativePeter SomersWisconsin · District 4Democratic1893–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRaymond CannonWisconsin · District 4Democratic1933–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThaddeus WasielewskiWisconsin · District 4Democratic1941–1947
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTheobald OtjenWisconsin · District 4Republican1895–1907
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam CaryWisconsin · District 4Republican1907–1919
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam LyndeWisconsin · District 4Democratic1847–1879
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