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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Missouri delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAbram ComingoMissouri · District 8Democratic1871–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlbert CarnahanMissouri · District 8Democratic1945–1961
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin FranklinMissouri · District 8Democratic1875–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBill EmersonMissouri · District 8Republican1981–1996
- Former U.S. RepresentativeClyde WilliamsMissouri · District 8Democratic1927–1943
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDorsey ShacklefordMissouri · District 8Democratic1899–1919
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrederick NiedringhausMissouri · District 8Republican1889–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames BlairMissouri · District 8Liberal Republican1871–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJo Ann EmersonMissouri · District 8Republican1997–2013
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoel HubbardMissouri · District 8Republican1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn BenjaminMissouri · District 8Republican1865–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeParke BantaMissouri · District 8Republican1947–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeR. BaileyMissouri · District 8Republican1981–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard BlandMissouri · District 8Democratic1873–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard Ichord IIMissouri · District 8Democratic1961–1981
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel SawyerMissouri · District 8Ind. Democrat1879–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSidney RoachMissouri · District 8Republican1921–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam ElmerMissouri · District 8Republican1943–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam HallMissouri · District 8Unionist1861–1865
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