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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Illinois delegation →- Charles HillIllinoisDistrict 8Republican1889–1891
- Charles McGavinIllinoisDistrict 8Republican1905–1909
- Greenbury FortIllinoisDistrict 8Republican1873–1881
- Joe WalshIllinoisDistrict 8Republican2011–2013
- John StuartIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1839–1865
- Leo KocialkowskiIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1933–1943
- Lewis StewardIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1891–1893
- Melissa BeanIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic2005–2011
- Peter GranataIllinoisDistrict 8Republican1931–1933
- Phil CraneIllinoisDistrict 8Republican1969–2005
- Philip FoukeIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1859–1863
- Ralph PlumbIllinoisDistrict 8Republican1885–1889
- Robert ChildsIllinoisDistrict 8Republican1893–1895
- Robert SmithIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1843–1859
- Stanley KunzIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1921–1933
- Thomas GallagherIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1909–1921
- Thomas GordonIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1943–1959
- William BissellIllinoisDistrict 8Ind. Democrat1849–1855
- William CullenIllinoisDistrict 8Republican1881–1885
- William MahoneyIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1901–1905
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