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 →- Abraham SmithPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1873–1885
- Alem MarrPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Jackson1829–1831
- Anthony RobertsPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1855–1859
- Bill ShusterPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican2001–2019
- Bud ShusterPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1973–2001
- Constantine ErdmanPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Democratic1893–1897
- Daniel ErmentroutPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Democratic1881–1901
- David BrunnerPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Democratic1889–1893
- Espy Van HornePennsylvaniaDistrict 9Jackson1825–1829
- George KeimPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Democratic1837–1843
- George KremerPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Jackson1823–1829
- George WatkinsPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1965–1971
- Henry CasselPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1901–1909
- Henry GreenPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Democratic1899–1903
- Henry MuhlenbergPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Democratic1829–1839
- Henry WatsonPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1915–1935
- Isaac HiesterPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Whig1853–1855
- James FordPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Jackson1829–1833
- John HiestandPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1885–1889
- John KinzerPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1929–1947
- John RitterPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Democratic1843–1847
- John SmiliePennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1793–1813
- Lewis DewartPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Jackson1831–1833
- Oliver DickeyPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1867–1873
- Oliver FreyPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Democratic1933–1939
- Paul DaguePennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1947–1967
- Philander StephensPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Jackson1829–1833
- Thaddeus StevensPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1849–1869
- Thomas BurnsidePennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1815–1817
- William EllisPennsylvaniaDistrict 91821–1825
- William MaclayPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Republican1815–1821
- William StrongPennsylvaniaDistrict 9Democratic1847–1851
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