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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North Carolina delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAbraham VenableNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1847–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlfred ScalesNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1857–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlonzo FolgerNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1939–1943
- Former U.S. RepresentativeArchibald WilliamsNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles HooksNorth Carolina · District 5Republican1815–1825
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles StedmanNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1911–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward DudleyNorth Carolina · District 5Jackson1829–1831
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdwin ReadeNorth Carolina · District 5American1855–1857
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFranklin Hancock Jr.North Carolina · District 5Democratic1929–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeIsrael LashNorth Carolina · District 5Republican1867–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames DobbinNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1845–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames GillespieNorth Carolina · District 5Republican1793–1805
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames LeachNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1859–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames OwenNorth Carolina · District 5Republican1817–1819
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames ReidNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1883–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn BrowerNorth Carolina · District 5Republican1887–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn FolgerNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1941–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn GilmerNorth Carolina · District 5Ind. Republican-Democrat1857–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn Kerr Jr.North Carolina · District 5Whig1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn MoreheadNorth Carolina · District 5Republican1909–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRalph ScottNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1957–1967
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard ChathamNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1949–1957
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRomulus SaundersNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1821–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeStephen NealNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1975–1995
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas KenanNorth Carolina · District 5Republican1805–1811
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas SettleNorth Carolina · District 5Republican1893–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam KitchinNorth Carolina · District 5Democratic1897–1909
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilmer MizellNorth Carolina · District 5Republican1969–1975
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