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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Missouri delegation →- Alan WheatMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1983–1995
- Albert Reeves Jr.MissouriDistrict 5Republican1947–1949
- Alexander GravesMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1883–1885
- Edgar EllisMissouriDistrict 5Republican1905–1931
- George Combs Jr.MissouriDistrict 5Democratic1927–1929
- Henry JostMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1923–1925
- John MillerMissouriDistrict 5Ind. Republican-Democrat1851–1857
- John ReidMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1861–1863
- John StoverMissouriDistrict 5Republican1867–1869
- John TarsneyMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1889–1897
- Joseph McClurgMissouriDistrict 5Republican1863–1869
- Joseph ShannonMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1931–1943
- Karen McCarthyMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1995–2005
- Richard BollingMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1949–1983
- Robert Van HornMissouriDistrict 5Republican1865–1897
- Roger SlaughterMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1943–1947
- Samuel BurdettMissouriDistrict 5Republican1869–1873
- Samuel WoodsonMissouriDistrict 5American1857–1861
- Thomas AkersMissouriDistrict 5American1855–1857
- Thomas PriceMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1861–1863
- William BlandMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1919–1921
- William BorlandMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1909–1919
- William CowherdMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1897–1905
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