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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Kentucky delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAddison WhiteKentucky · District 6Whig1851–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlbert BerryKentucky · District 6Democratic1893–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew WardKentucky · District 6Democratic1865–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeArthur RouseKentucky · District 6Democratic1911–1927
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBen ChandlerKentucky · District 6Democratic2004–2013
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel BreckKentucky · District 6Whig1849–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel GoochKentucky · District 6Democratic1901–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid WalkerKentucky · District 6Republican1817–1821
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid WhiteKentucky · District 61823–1825
- Former U.S. RepresentativeErnie FletcherKentucky · District 6Republican1999–2003
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge BedingerKentucky · District 6Republican1803–1807
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge DunlapKentucky · District 6Unionist1861–1863
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGreen AdamsKentucky · District 6Ind. Republican-Democrat1847–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGreen SmithKentucky · District 6Unconditional Unionist1863–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn BreckinridgeKentucky · District 6Democratic1973–1979
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn CalhoonKentucky · District 6Whig1827–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn ElliottKentucky · District 6Democratic1853–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn MartinKentucky · District 6Democratic1845–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn WattsKentucky · District 6Democratic1951–1973
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn WhiteKentucky · District 6Whig1835–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph LecompteKentucky · District 6Jackson1825–1833
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph RhinockKentucky · District 6Democratic1905–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJudson NewhallKentucky · District 6Republican1929–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLarry HopkinsKentucky · District 6Republican1979–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOrie WareKentucky · District 6Democratic1927–1929
- Former U.S. RepresentativeScotty BaeslerKentucky · District 6Democratic1993–1999
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSolomon SharpKentucky · District 6Republican1813–1817
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas ChiltonKentucky · District 6Anti Jacksonian1827–1835
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas JonesKentucky · District 6Democratic1867–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeW. DickersonKentucky · District 6Democratic1889–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam ArthurKentucky · District 6Democratic1871–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam Curlin Jr.Kentucky · District 6Democratic1971–1973
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