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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Wisconsin delegation →- Dave ObeyWisconsinDistrict 7Democratic1969–2011
- Frank CoburnWisconsinDistrict 7Democratic1891–1893
- George ShawWisconsinDistrict 7Republican1893–1895
- Gerald BoileauWisconsinDistrict 7Progressive1931–1939
- Gilbert WoodwardWisconsinDistrict 7Democratic1883–1885
- Herman HumphreyWisconsinDistrict 7Republican1877–1883
- Jeremiah RuskWisconsinDistrict 7Republican1871–1877
- John EschWisconsinDistrict 7Republican1899–1921
- Joseph BeckWisconsinDistrict 7Republican1921–1929
- Melvin LairdWisconsinDistrict 7Republican1953–1971
- Michael GriffinWisconsinDistrict 7Republican1893–1899
- Ormsby ThomasWisconsinDistrict 7Republican1885–1891
- Reid MurrayWisconsinDistrict 7Republican1939–1953
- Sean DuffyWisconsinDistrict 7Republican2011–2019
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