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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Tennessee delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAaron BrownTennessee · District 6Democratic1839–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew CaldwellTennessee · District 6Democratic1883–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBalie PeytonTennessee · District 6Jacksonian1833–1837
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBarclay MartinTennessee · District 6Democratic1845–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBart GordonTennessee · District 6Democratic1985–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativeClarence TurnerTennessee · District 6Democratic1921–1941
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDiane BlackTennessee · District 6Republican2011–2019
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge JonesTennessee · District 6Democratic1843–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge MarrTennessee · District 6Republican1817–1819
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry BryanTennessee · District 6Republican1819–1823
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames SandfordTennessee · District 6Jackson Republican1823–1825
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames SuttonTennessee · District 6Democratic1949–1955
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames ThomasTennessee · District 6Democratic1847–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn GainesTennessee · District 6Democratic1897–1909
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HouseTennessee · District 6Democratic1875–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph WashingtonTennessee · District 6Democratic1887–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeParry HumphreysTennessee · District 6Republican1813–1815
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobin Beard Jr.Tennessee · District 6Republican1973–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel ArnellTennessee · District 6Republican1865–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam AndersonTennessee · District 6Democratic1965–1973
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam PolkTennessee · District 6Ind. Democrat1851–1853
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