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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Virginia delegation →- Alexander DavisVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1873–1875
- Alexander WilsonVirginiaDistrict 5Republican1803–1809
- Bob GoodVirginiaDistrict 5Republican2021–2025
- Christopher ThomasVirginiaDistrict 5Republican1873–1875
- Dan DanielVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1969–1988
- Denver RigglemanVirginiaDistrict 5Republican2019–2021
- Edward SaundersVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1905–1921
- George CabellVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1875–1887
- George CrumpVirginiaDistrict 5Jackson1825–1827
- George HancockVirginiaDistrict 5Federalist1793–1797
- James BouldinVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1833–1839
- James BreckinridgeVirginiaDistrict 5Federalist1809–1817
- James HookerVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1921–1925
- John BrownVirginiaDistrict 5Republican1887–1889
- John HillVirginiaDistrict 5Whig1839–1841
- Joseph WhiteheadVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1925–1931
- Lewis Payne Jr.VirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1988–1997
- Posey LesterVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1889–1893
- Richard DukeVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1869–1873
- Robert HurtVirginiaDistrict 5Republican2011–2017
- Robert RidgwayVirginiaDistrict 5Conservative1867–1871
- Rorer JamesVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1919–1923
- Thomas BocockVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1847–1861
- Thomas BouldinVirginiaDistrict 5Jackson1829–1835
- Thomas GarrettVirginiaDistrict 5Republican2017–2019
- Thomas GilmerVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1841–1845
- Thomas LewisVirginiaDistrict 5Federalist1803–1805
- Thomas PerrielloVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic2009–2011
- Thomas StanleyVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1946–1955
- Virgil Goode Jr.VirginiaDistrict 5Republican1997–2009
- William GogginVirginiaDistrict 5Whig1839–1849
- William TuckVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1953–1969
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