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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Tennessee delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeAbram MauryTennessee · District 8Whig1835–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew EwingTennessee · District 8Democratic1849–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin EnloeTennessee · District 8Democratic1887–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDan KuykendallTennessee · District 8Republican1967–1975
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid NunnTennessee · District 8Republican1867–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEd JonesTennessee · District 8Democratic1969–1989
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdwin EwingTennessee · District 8Whig1845–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFelix ZollicofferTennessee · District 8American1853–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames QuarlesTennessee · District 8Ind. Republican-Democrat1859–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames ReynoldsTennessee · District 8Republican1815–1825
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJere CooperTennessee · District 8Democratic1929–1959
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn AtkinsTennessee · District 8Democratic1857–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn LeftwichTennessee · District 8Unionist1865–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn MarableTennessee · District 8Jackson1825–1829
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn McCallTennessee · District 8Republican1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn TannerTennessee · District 8Democratic1989–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn TaylorTennessee · District 8Democratic1883–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph PeytonTennessee · District 8Whig1843–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLon ScottTennessee · District 8Republican1921–1923
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert EverettTennessee · District 8Democratic1957–1971
- Former U.S. RepresentativeStephen FincherTennessee · District 8Republican2011–2017
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThetus SimsTennessee · District 8Democratic1897–1921
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWashington BarrowTennessee · District 8Whig1847–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam SmithTennessee · District 8Republican1869–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam VaughanTennessee · District 8Democratic1871–1873
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