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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Wisconsin delegation →- Andrew BiemillerWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1945–1951
- Charles EldredgeWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1863–1875
- Charles KerstenWisconsinDistrict 5Republican1947–1955
- Ezra WheelerWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1863–1865
- F. Sensenbrenner Jr.WisconsinDistrict 5Republican1979–2021
- George BricknerWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1889–1895
- Henry ReussWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1955–1983
- Howard McMurrayWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1943–1945
- Jim MoodyWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1983–1993
- Joseph RankinWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1883–1887
- Lewis ThillWisconsinDistrict 5Republican1939–1943
- Samuel BarneyWisconsinDistrict 5Republican1895–1903
- Samuel BurchardWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1875–1877
- Thomas BarrettWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1993–2003
- Thomas HuddWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1885–1889
- Thomas O’MalleyWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1933–1939
- Victor BergerWisconsinDistrict 5Socialist1911–1929
- William StaffordWisconsinDistrict 5Republican1903–1933
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