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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Alabama delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlbert Smith Jr.Alabama · District 6Republican1981–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBen ErdreichAlabama · District 6Democratic1983–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBurwell LewisAlabama · District 6Democratic1875–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward deGraffenriedAlabama · District 6Democratic1949–1953
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGoldsmith HewittAlabama · District 6Democratic1875–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn Buchanan Jr.Alabama · District 6Republican1965–1981
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn MartinAlabama · District 6Democratic1885–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph SlossAlabama · District 6Democratic1871–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNewton ClementsAlabama · District 6Democratic1879–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativePete JarmanAlabama · District 6Democratic1937–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeReuben ChapmanAlabama · District 6Democratic1835–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichmond HobsonAlabama · District 6Democratic1907–1915
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSpencer Bachus IIIAlabama · District 6Republican1993–2015
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas HaugheyAlabama · District 6Republican1867–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam OliverAlabama · District 6Democratic1915–1937
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam SherrodAlabama · District 6Democratic1869–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliamson CobbAlabama · District 6Democratic1847–1861
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