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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Kentucky delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander MarshallKentucky · District 8American1855–1857
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles MoreheadKentucky · District 8Whig1847–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrederick VinsonKentucky · District 8Democratic1923–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge DavisonKentucky · District 8Republican1897–1899
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge GilbertKentucky · District 8Democratic1899–1907
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames BreckinridgeKentucky · District 8Republican1821–1823
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames ClayKentucky · District 8Democratic1857–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames GoldenKentucky · District 8Republican1949–1955
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames SpriggKentucky · District 8Whig1841–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph BatesKentucky · District 8Democratic1937–1953
- Former U.S. RepresentativeKing SwopeKentucky · District 8Republican1919–1921
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLewis WalkerKentucky · District 8Republican1929–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMilton DurhamKentucky · District 8Democratic1873–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNathan GaitherKentucky · District 8Jackson1829–1833
- Former U.S. RepresentativePatrick PopeKentucky · District 8Jackson1833–1835
- Former U.S. RepresentativePhilip Thompson Jr.Kentucky · District 8Democratic1879–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRalph GilbertKentucky · District 8Democratic1921–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard Anderson Jr.Kentucky · District 8Republican1817–1821
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard BucknerKentucky · District 8Adams1823–1829
- Former U.S. RepresentativeStephen OrmsbyKentucky · District 8Republican1811–1817
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam GravesKentucky · District 8Whig1835–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam RandallKentucky · District 8Unconditional Unionist1863–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam SimmsKentucky · District 8Democratic1859–1861
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