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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Kentucky delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew MayKentucky · District 7Democratic1931–1947
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin HardinKentucky · District 7Whig1815–1837
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBrutus ClayKentucky · District 7Unionist1863–1865
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCarl PerkinsKentucky · District 7Democratic1949–1985
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCarl PerkinsKentucky · District 7Democratic1983–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEvan SettleKentucky · District 7Democratic1897–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge ShanklinKentucky · District 7Democratic1865–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHumphrey MarshallKentucky · District 7American1849–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames CantrillKentucky · District 7Democratic1909–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn KincaidKentucky · District 7Jackson1829–1831
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn SmithKentucky · District 7Republican1821–1823
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph MorrisKentucky · District 7Democratic1923–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJune GayleKentucky · District 7Democratic1899–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert BlackburnKentucky · District 7Republican1929–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel McKeeKentucky · District 7Republican1809–1817
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSouth TrimbleKentucky · District 7Democratic1901–1907
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas MooreKentucky · District 7Jackson1823–1829
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWendell MeadeKentucky · District 7Republican1947–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam BreckinridgeKentucky · District 7Democratic1885–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam DuncanKentucky · District 7Whig1847–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam KimballKentucky · District 7Democratic1907–1909
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam OwensKentucky · District 7Democratic1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam PrestonKentucky · District 7Whig1851–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam ThomassonKentucky · District 7Whig1843–1847
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