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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New Jersey delegation →- Alexander PenningtonNew JerseyDistrict 5Ind. Republican-Democrat1853–1857
- Augustus CutlerNew JerseyDistrict 5Democratic1875–1879
- Charles BeckwithNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1889–1891
- Charles EatonNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1925–1953
- Charles FowlerNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1895–1911
- Charles VoorhisNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1879–1881
- Cornelius CadmusNew JerseyDistrict 5Democratic1891–1895
- Dudley GregoryNew JerseyDistrict 5Whig1847–1849
- Edwin WrightNew JerseyDistrict 5Democratic1865–1867
- Ernest AckermanNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1919–1933
- George HalseyNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1867–1873
- Jacob WortendykeNew JerseyDistrict 5Democratic1857–1859
- James KingNew JerseyDistrict 5Whig1849–1851
- James StewartNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1895–1903
- John CapstickNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1915–1919
- John HillNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1867–1883
- Marge RoukemaNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1981–2003
- Millicent FenwickNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1975–1983
- Nehemiah PerryNew JerseyDistrict 5Democratic1861–1865
- Orestes ClevelandNew JerseyDistrict 5Democratic1869–1871
- Percy StewartNew JerseyDistrict 5Democratic1931–1933
- Peter Frelinghuysen Jr.New JerseyDistrict 5Republican1953–1975
- Rodman PriceNew JerseyDistrict 5Democratic1851–1853
- Scott GarrettNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican2003–2017
- William BirchNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1917–1919
- William PenningtonNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1859–1861
- William PhelpsNew JerseyDistrict 5Republican1873–1889
- William Tuttle Jr.New JerseyDistrict 5Democratic1911–1915
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