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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Tennessee delegation →- Charles ReadyTennesseeDistrict 5American1853–1859
- Clifford AllenTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1975–1979
- Edward GolladayTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1871–1873
- Ewin DavisTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1919–1933
- Harold EarthmanTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1945–1947
- Horace HarrisonTennesseeDistrict 5Republican1873–1875
- James PriestTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1941–1957
- James RichardsonTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1885–1905
- Jim CooperTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1983–2023
- Jim McCordTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1943–1945
- John BrightTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1871–1881
- John ForesterTennesseeDistrict 5Anti-Jacksonian1833–1837
- John TrimbleTennesseeDistrict 5Republican1867–1869
- Joseph ByrnsTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1909–1937
- Joseph Byrns Jr.TennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1939–1941
- Joseph LoserTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1957–1963
- Newton CannonTennesseeDistrict 5Republican1813–1823
- Richard AtkinsonTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1937–1939
- Richard FultonTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1963–1977
- Richard WarnerTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1881–1885
- Robert AllenTennesseeDistrict 5Jackson1819–1827
- Robert ClementTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1988–2003
- Robert DeshaTennesseeDistrict 5Jackson1827–1831
- Robert HattonTennesseeDistrict 5Ind. Republican-Democrat1859–1861
- Thomas ClaiborneTennesseeDistrict 5Republican1817–1819
- William BonerTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1979–1987
- William CampbellTennesseeDistrict 5Unionist1837–1867
- William HallTennesseeDistrict 5Jackson1831–1833
- William HoustonTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1905–1919
- William ProsserTennesseeDistrict 5Republican1869–1871
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