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 →- Abraham VenableNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1847–1853
- Alfred ScalesNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1857–1885
- Alonzo FolgerNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1939–1943
- Archibald WilliamsNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1891–1893
- Charles HooksNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Republican1815–1825
- Charles StedmanNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1911–1931
- Edward DudleyNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Jackson1829–1831
- Edwin ReadeNorth CarolinaDistrict 5American1855–1857
- Franklin Hancock Jr.North CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1929–1939
- Israel LashNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Republican1867–1871
- James DobbinNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1845–1847
- James GillespieNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Republican1793–1805
- James LeachNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1859–1875
- James OwenNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Republican1817–1819
- James ReidNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1883–1887
- John BrowerNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Republican1887–1891
- John FolgerNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1941–1949
- John GilmerNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Ind. Republican-Democrat1857–1861
- John Kerr Jr.North CarolinaDistrict 5Whig1853–1855
- John MoreheadNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Republican1909–1911
- Ralph ScottNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1957–1967
- Richard ChathamNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1949–1957
- Romulus SaundersNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1821–1845
- Stephen NealNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1975–1995
- Thomas KenanNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Republican1805–1811
- Thomas SettleNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Republican1893–1897
- William KitchinNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Democratic1897–1909
- Wilmer MizellNorth CarolinaDistrict 5Republican1969–1975
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