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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Illinois delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAbraham LincolnIllinois · District 7Whig1847–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAdolph SabathIllinois · District 7Democratic1907–1953
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander CampbellIllinois · District 7Independent1875–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCardiss CollinsIllinois · District 7Democratic1973–1997
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrank BuchananIllinois · District 7Democratic1911–1917
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFranklin CorwinIllinois · District 7Republican1873–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrederick LundinIllinois · District 7Republican1909–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry BromwellIllinois · District 7Republican1865–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames BowlerIllinois · District 7Democratic1953–1959
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJesse MooreIllinois · District 7Republican1869–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HardinIllinois · District 7Whig1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HenryIllinois · District 7Whig1845–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLeonard SchuetzIllinois · District 7Democratic1931–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMagne MichaelsonIllinois · District 7Republican1921–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNiels JuulIllinois · District 7Republican1917–1921
- Former U.S. RepresentativePhilip HayesIllinois · District 7Republican1877–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativePhilip KnopfIllinois · District 7Republican1903–1909
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRoland LibonatiIllinois · District 7Democratic1957–1965
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas HendersonIllinois · District 7Republican1875–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas OwensIllinois · District 7Republican1947–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam LinkIllinois · District 7Democratic1945–1947
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