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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Missouri delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlfred LayMissouri · District 7Democratic1879–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAylett BucknerMissouri · District 7Democratic1873–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin LoanMissouri · District 7Republican1863–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBilly LongMissouri · District 7Republican2011–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles BrownMissouri · District 7Democratic1957–1961
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCourtney HamlinMissouri · District 7Democratic1903–1919
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDewey ShortMissouri · District 7Republican1929–1957
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDurward HallMissouri · District 7Republican1961–1973
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGene TaylorMissouri · District 7Republican1973–1989
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames CooneyMissouri · District 7Democratic1897–1903
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoel AsperMissouri · District 7Republican1869–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HeardMissouri · District 7Democratic1885–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HuttonMissouri · District 7Democratic1885–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn PalmerMissouri · District 7Republican1929–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn PhilipsMissouri · District 7Democratic1875–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn TraceyMissouri · District 7Republican1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn WelbornMissouri · District 7Republican1905–1907
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMel HancockMissouri · District 7Republican1989–1997
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard NortonMissouri · District 7Democratic1889–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert JohnsonMissouri · District 7Democratic1931–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel CaruthersMissouri · District 7Democratic1853–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTheron RiceMissouri · District 7National Greenbacker1881–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas CrittendenMissouri · District 7Democratic1873–1879
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