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 →- Abram Andrew Jr.MassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1921–1937
- Augustus GardnerMassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1901–1919
- Charles ThompsonMassachusettsDistrict 6Democratic1875–1877
- Charles UphamMassachusettsDistrict 6Whig1853–1855
- George AshmunMassachusettsDistrict 6Whig1845–1851
- George BatesMassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1937–1951
- George DavisMassachusettsDistrict 6Whig1851–1853
- George Grennell Jr.MassachusettsDistrict 6Whig1829–1839
- George LoringMassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1877–1881
- Henry LoveringMassachusettsDistrict 6Democratic1883–1887
- James AlvordMassachusettsDistrict 6Whig1839–1841
- John LockeMassachusettsDistrict 6Adams1823–1829
- John ReedMassachusettsDistrict 6Federalist1795–1801
- John TierneyMassachusettsDistrict 6Democratic1997–2015
- Joseph KendallMassachusettsDistrict 61829–1833
- Josiah SmithMassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1801–1803
- Michael HarringtonMassachusettsDistrict 6Democratic1969–1979
- Nicholas MavroulesMassachusettsDistrict 6Democratic1979–1993
- Osmyn BakerMassachusettsDistrict 6Whig1839–1845
- Peter TorkildsenMassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1993–1997
- Samuel TaggartMassachusettsDistrict 6Federalist1803–1817
- Timothy DavisMassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1855–1859
- Willfred LufkinMassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1917–1923
- William BatesMassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1949–1971
- William CogswellMassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1887–1897
- William MoodyMassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1895–1903
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