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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Michigan delegation →- Augustus BaldwinMichiganDistrict 5Democratic1863–1865
- Bartel JonkmanMichiganDistrict 5Republican1939–1949
- Carl MapesMichiganDistrict 5Republican1913–1941
- Charles BelknapMichiganDistrict 5Republican1889–1893
- Charles ComstockMichiganDistrict 5Democratic1885–1887
- Dale KildeeMichiganDistrict 5Democratic1977–2013
- Edwin SweetMichiganDistrict 5Democratic1911–1913
- George RichardsonMichiganDistrict 5Democratic1893–1895
- George WebberMichiganDistrict 5Republican1881–1883
- Gerald Ford Jr.MichiganDistrict 5Republican1949–1975
- Gerrit DiekemaMichiganDistrict 5Republican1907–1911
- Harold SawyerMichiganDistrict 5Republican1977–1985
- James BarciaMichiganDistrict 5Democratic1993–2003
- John StoneMichiganDistrict 5Republican1877–1881
- Julius HousemanMichiganDistrict 5Democratic1883–1885
- Melbourne FordMichiganDistrict 5Democratic1887–1893
- Richard Vander VeenMichiganDistrict 5Democratic1973–1977
- Rowland TrowbridgeMichiganDistrict 5Republican1861–1869
- Wilder FosterMichiganDistrict 5Republican1871–1875
- William WilliamsMichiganDistrict 5Republican1873–1877
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