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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Massachusetts delegation →- Angier GoodwinMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1943–1955
- Arthur HealeyMassachusettsDistrict 8Democratic1933–1943
- Charles AllenMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1885–1889
- Charles TrainMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1859–1863
- Chauncey KnappMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1855–1859
- Fisher AmesMassachusettsDistrict 8Federalist1789–1797
- Frederic GreenhalgeMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1889–1891
- Frederick DallingerMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1915–1933
- Frederick DeitrickMassachusettsDistrict 8Democratic1913–1915
- Gideon GardnerMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1809–1811
- Harry ThayerMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1925–1927
- Horace MannMassachusettsDistrict 8Free Soil1847–1853
- Isaiah GreenMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1805–1813
- John BaldwinMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1863–1869
- John WilliamsMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1873–1875
- Jonathan GroutMassachusettsDistrict 81789–1791
- Joseph Kennedy IIMassachusettsDistrict 8Democratic1987–1999
- Lemuel WilliamsMassachusettsDistrict 8Federalist1799–1805
- Samuel LathropMassachusettsDistrict 8Adams1819–1827
- Samuel McCallMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1893–1913
- Tappan WentworthMassachusettsDistrict 8Whig1853–1855
- Tip O’Neill Jr.MassachusettsDistrict 8Democratic1953–1987
- William CalhounMassachusettsDistrict 8Whig1835–1843
- William ClaflinMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1877–1881
- William RussellMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1879–1885
- William WarrenMassachusettsDistrict 8Democratic1875–1877
- Zabdiel SampsonMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1817–1821
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