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 →- Albert Vaughn Sr.PennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1951–1953
- Alexander OglePennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1817–1819
- Charles GerlachPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1939–1949
- Edward Biester Jr.PennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1967–1977
- Edward HubleyPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1835–1839
- Franklin LichtenwalterPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1947–1951
- George WolfPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Jackson1823–1831
- Henry KingPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Jackson1831–1835
- Henry MuhlenbergPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1853–1855
- Hiester ClymerPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1873–1881
- Howard MutchlerPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1893–1903
- Irving WangerPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1893–1911
- Jacob McKentyPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1859–1861
- James Coyne IIIPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1981–1983
- James GetzPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1867–1873
- Jehu JonesPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1851–1859
- Jeremiah BrownPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Whig1841–1845
- Jim GreenwoodPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1993–2005
- John SchwartzPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Anti-Lecompton Democrat1859–1861
- John StrohmPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Whig1845–1849
- Joseph HartPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1895–1897
- Karl KingPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1951–1957
- Laird BarberPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1899–1901
- Matt CartwrightPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic2013–2025
- Michael FitzpatrickPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican2005–2017
- Patrick MurphyPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic2007–2011
- Peter Ihrie Jr.PennsylvaniaDistrict 8Jackson1829–1833
- Peter KostmayerPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1977–1993
- Peter NewhardPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1839–1843
- Robert DifenderferPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1911–1915
- Robert PhilsonPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1819–1821
- Samuel SmithPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Jackson1829–1833
- Sydenham AnconaPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1861–1867
- Thomas ButlerPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1897–1929
- Thomas HartleyPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Federalist1789–1801
- Thomas RogersPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1817–1825
- Willard CurtinPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1957–1967
- William KeimPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1857–1859
- William KirkpatrickPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1897–1899
- William MutchlerPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Democratic1875–1895
- William PiperPennsylvaniaDistrict 8Republican1811–1817
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