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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Virginia delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAbram TriggVirginia · District 6Republican1797–1809
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBob GoodlatteVirginia · District 6Republican1993–2019
- Former U.S. RepresentativeClarence BurtonVirginia · District 6Democratic1947–1953
- Former U.S. RepresentativeClifton WoodrumVirginia · District 6Democratic1923–1947
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel SheffeyVirginia · District 6Federalist1809–1817
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge TuckerVirginia · District 61819–1825
- Former U.S. RepresentativeIsaac ColesVirginia · District 6Republican1789–1797
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames Almond Jr.Virginia · District 6Democratic1945–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames OlinVirginia · District 6Democratic1983–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames SeddonVirginia · District 6Democratic1845–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames WoodsVirginia · District 6Democratic1917–1923
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn BottsVirginia · District 6Whig1839–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn JonesVirginia · District 6Democratic1835–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeManley ButlerVirginia · District 6Republican1971–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativePaul EdmundsVirginia · District 6Democratic1889–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativePaulus PowellVirginia · District 6Democratic1849–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativePeter OteyVirginia · District 6Democratic1895–1902
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard PoffVirginia · District 6Republican1953–1973
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel HopkinsVirginia · District 6Union1887–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeShelton LeakeVirginia · District 6Ind. Democrat1845–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas DavenportVirginia · District 6Anti-Jacksonian1825–1835
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas WhiteheadVirginia · District 6Democratic1873–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam Milnes Jr.Virginia · District 6Conservative1869–1871
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