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 →- Addison WhiteKentuckyDistrict 6Whig1851–1853
- Albert BerryKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1893–1901
- Andrew WardKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1865–1867
- Arthur RouseKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1911–1927
- Ben ChandlerKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic2004–2013
- Daniel BreckKentuckyDistrict 6Whig1849–1851
- Daniel GoochKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1901–1905
- David WalkerKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1817–1821
- David WhiteKentuckyDistrict 61823–1825
- Ernie FletcherKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1999–2003
- George BedingerKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1803–1807
- George DunlapKentuckyDistrict 6Unionist1861–1863
- Green AdamsKentuckyDistrict 6Ind. Republican-Democrat1847–1861
- Green SmithKentuckyDistrict 6Unconditional Unionist1863–1867
- John BreckinridgeKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1973–1979
- John CalhoonKentuckyDistrict 6Whig1827–1839
- John ElliottKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1853–1859
- John MartinKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1845–1847
- John WattsKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1951–1973
- John WhiteKentuckyDistrict 6Whig1835–1845
- Joseph LecompteKentuckyDistrict 6Jackson1825–1833
- Joseph RhinockKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1905–1911
- Judson NewhallKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1929–1931
- Larry HopkinsKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1979–1993
- Orie WareKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1927–1929
- Scotty BaeslerKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1993–1999
- Solomon SharpKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1813–1817
- Thomas ChiltonKentuckyDistrict 6Anti Jacksonian1827–1835
- Thomas JonesKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1867–1877
- W. DickersonKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1889–1893
- William ArthurKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1871–1875
- William Curlin Jr.KentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1971–1973
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