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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Pennsylvania delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlbert Vaughn Sr.Pennsylvania · District 8Republican1951–1953
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander OglePennsylvania · District 8Republican1817–1819
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles GerlachPennsylvania · District 8Republican1939–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward Biester Jr.Pennsylvania · District 8Republican1967–1977
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFranklin LichtenwalterPennsylvania · District 8Republican1947–1951
- Former U.S. RepresentativeIrving WangerPennsylvania · District 8Republican1893–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames Coyne IIIPennsylvania · District 8Republican1981–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJim GreenwoodPennsylvania · District 8Republican1993–2005
- Former U.S. RepresentativeKarl KingPennsylvania · District 8Republican1951–1957
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMichael FitzpatrickPennsylvania · District 8Republican2005–2017
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert PhilsonPennsylvania · District 8Republican1819–1821
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas ButlerPennsylvania · District 8Republican1897–1929
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas RogersPennsylvania · District 8Republican1817–1825
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWillard CurtinPennsylvania · District 8Republican1957–1967
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam KeimPennsylvania · District 8Republican1857–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam KirkpatrickPennsylvania · District 8Republican1897–1899
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam PiperPennsylvania · District 8Republican1811–1817
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