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. RepresentativeAbigail SpanbergerVirginia · District 7Democratic2019–2025
- Former U.S. RepresentativeArchibald StuartVirginia · District 7Democratic1837–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBallard SmithVirginia · District 7Republican1815–1821
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBurr HarrisonVirginia · District 7Democratic1946–1963
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles O’FerrallVirginia · District 7Democratic1883–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles UptonVirginia · District 7Unionist1861–1863
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel Slaughter Jr.Virginia · District 7Republican1985–1991
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDave BratVirginia · District 7Republican2014–2019
- Former U.S. RepresentativeElliott BraxtonVirginia · District 7Democratic1871–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEric CantorVirginia · District 7Republican2001–2014
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry WiseVirginia · District 7Democratic1833–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHugh CapertonVirginia · District 7Federalist1813–1815
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJabez LeftwichVirginia · District 71821–1825
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJacob GarberVirginia · District 7Republican1929–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames HayVirginia · District 7Democratic1897–1917
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames RobinsonVirginia · District 7Republican1971–1985
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn FishburneVirginia · District 7Democratic1931–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HarrisVirginia · District 7Democratic1859–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn Marsh Jr.Virginia · District 7Democratic1963–1971
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn PaulVirginia · District 7Readjuster1881–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn PaulVirginia · District 7Republican1921–1923
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLewis McKenzieVirginia · District 7Conservative1861–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNathaniel ClaiborneVirginia · District 7Anti Jacksonian1825–1837
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSmith TurnerVirginia · District 7Democratic1893–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas HarrisonVirginia · District 7Democratic1915–1929
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTom BlileyVirginia · District 7Republican1981–2001
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam SmithVirginia · District 7Democratic1841–1861
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