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.
Pennsylvania16
Pennsylvania delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward HubleyPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1835–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry MuhlenbergPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHiester ClymerPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1873–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHoward MutchlerPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1893–1903
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJacob McKentyPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1859–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames GetzPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1867–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJehu JonesPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1851–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph HartPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLaird BarberPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1899–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMatt CartwrightPennsylvania · District 8Democratic2013–2025
- Former U.S. RepresentativePatrick MurphyPennsylvania · District 8Democratic2007–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativePeter KostmayerPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1977–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativePeter NewhardPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1839–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert DifenderferPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1911–1915
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSydenham AnconaPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1861–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam MutchlerPennsylvania · District 8Democratic1875–1895
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