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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Massachusetts delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAbram Andrew Jr.Massachusetts · District 6Republican1921–1937
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAugustus GardnerMassachusetts · District 6Republican1901–1919
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles ThompsonMassachusetts · District 6Democratic1875–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles UphamMassachusetts · District 6Whig1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge AshmunMassachusetts · District 6Whig1845–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge BatesMassachusetts · District 6Republican1937–1951
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge DavisMassachusetts · District 6Whig1851–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge Grennell Jr.Massachusetts · District 6Whig1829–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge LoringMassachusetts · District 6Republican1877–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry LoveringMassachusetts · District 6Democratic1883–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames AlvordMassachusetts · District 6Whig1839–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn LockeMassachusetts · District 6Adams1823–1829
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn ReedMassachusetts · District 6Federalist1795–1801
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn TierneyMassachusetts · District 6Democratic1997–2015
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph KendallMassachusetts · District 61829–1833
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJosiah SmithMassachusetts · District 6Republican1801–1803
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMichael HarringtonMassachusetts · District 6Democratic1969–1979
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNicholas MavroulesMassachusetts · District 6Democratic1979–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOsmyn BakerMassachusetts · District 6Whig1839–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativePeter TorkildsenMassachusetts · District 6Republican1993–1997
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel TaggartMassachusetts · District 6Federalist1803–1817
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTimothy DavisMassachusetts · District 6Republican1855–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWillfred LufkinMassachusetts · District 6Republican1917–1923
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam BatesMassachusetts · District 6Republican1949–1971
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam CogswellMassachusetts · District 6Republican1887–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam MoodyMassachusetts · District 6Republican1895–1903
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