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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Alabama delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlbert GoodwynAlabama · District 5Populist1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeArmistead Selden Jr.Alabama · District 5Democratic1953–1969
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBud Cramer Jr.Alabama · District 5Democratic1991–2009
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles ThompsonAlabama · District 5Democratic1901–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid HubbardAlabama · District 5Democratic1839–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrancis LyonAlabama · District 5Whig1835–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames CobbAlabama · District 5Democratic1887–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoe StarnesAlabama · District 5Democratic1935–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn CaldwellAlabama · District 5Democratic1873–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn CallisAlabama · District 5Republican1867–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn MurphyAlabama · District 5Jackson1833–1835
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLaFayette PattersonAlabama · District 5Democratic1927–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMiles AllgoodAlabama · District 5Democratic1923–1935
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMo BrooksAlabama · District 5Republican2011–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeParker GriffithAlabama · District 5Republican2009–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativePeter DoxAlabama · District 5Democratic1869–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert Jones Jr.Alabama · District 5Democratic1947–1977
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert LigonAlabama · District 5Democratic1877–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRonnie FlippoAlabama · District 5Democratic1977–1991
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas SadlerAlabama · District 5Democratic1885–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas WilliamsAlabama · District 5Democratic1879–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam BowlingAlabama · District 5Democratic1919–1929
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWillis BrewerAlabama · District 5Democratic1897–1901
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