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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Massachusetts delegation →- Anson BurlingameMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1855–1861
- Butler AmesMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1903–1913
- Charles AllenMassachusettsDistrict 5Free Soil1849–1853
- Charles HudsonMassachusettsDistrict 5Whig1841–1849
- Chester AtkinsMassachusettsDistrict 5Democratic1985–1993
- Daniel GoochMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1857–1875
- Edith RogersMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1925–1961
- Edward HaydenMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1885–1889
- Frank MorseMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1961–1973
- George PartridgeMassachusettsDistrict 51789–1791
- James ShannonMassachusettsDistrict 5Democratic1979–1985
- John AlleyMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1859–1867
- John RogersMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1913–1927
- Jonas SibleyMassachusettsDistrict 51823–1825
- Levi LincolnMassachusettsDistrict 5Whig1833–1843
- Marty MeehanMassachusettsDistrict 5Democratic1993–2007
- Moses StevensMassachusettsDistrict 5Democratic1891–1895
- Nathaniel BanksMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1853–1891
- Nathaniel Freeman Jr.MassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1795–1799
- Paul CroninMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1973–1975
- Selwyn BowmanMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1879–1883
- Sherman HoarMassachusettsDistrict 5Democratic1891–1893
- Thomas DwightMassachusettsDistrict 5Federalist1803–1805
- William AppletonMassachusettsDistrict 5Constitutional Unionist1851–1863
- William ElyMassachusettsDistrict 5Federalist1805–1815
- William KnoxMassachusettsDistrict 5Republican1895–1903
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