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 →- Former U.S. RepresentativeEnos HookPennsylvania · District 20Democratic1839–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry BeesonPennsylvania · District 20Democratic1841–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn DickeyPennsylvania · District 20Whig1843–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn EwingPennsylvania · District 20Whig1845–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJonathan KnightPennsylvania · District 20Ind. Republican-Democrat1855–1857
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert ReedPennsylvania · District 20Whig1849–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam MontgomeryPennsylvania · District 20Democratic1857–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCornelius DarraghPennsylvania · District 21Whig1843–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid RitchiePennsylvania · District 21Republican1853–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry FosterPennsylvania · District 21Democratic1843–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeIsaac LeetPennsylvania · District 21Democratic1839–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn CovodePennsylvania · District 21Republican1855–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn DawsonPennsylvania · District 21Democratic1851–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph LawrencePennsylvania · District 21Whig1825–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMoses HamptonPennsylvania · District 21Whig1847–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas McKennanPennsylvania · District 21Whig1831–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarmar DennyPennsylvania · District 22Anti Masonic1829–1837
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry BrackenridgePennsylvania · District 22Whig1839–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames MoorheadPennsylvania · District 22Republican1859–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn FarrellyPennsylvania · District 22Whig1847–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HowePennsylvania · District 22Whig1849–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard BiddlePennsylvania · District 22Anti Masonic1837–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert McKnightPennsylvania · District 22Republican1859–1863
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel HaysPennsylvania · District 22Democratic1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel PurviancePennsylvania · District 22Republican1855–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas HowePennsylvania · District 22Whig1851–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam GarvinPennsylvania · District 22Democratic1845–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam IrwinPennsylvania · District 22Whig1841–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles ReedPennsylvania · District 23Whig1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames ThompsonPennsylvania · District 23Democratic1845–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn AllisonPennsylvania · District 23Ind. Republican-Democrat1851–1857
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMichael TroutPennsylvania · District 23Democratic1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel HarrisonPennsylvania · District 23Jackson1833–1837
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam BeattyPennsylvania · District 23Democratic1837–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam JackPennsylvania · District 23Democratic1841–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam StewartPennsylvania · District 23Republican1857–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander IrvinPennsylvania · District 24Whig1847–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlfred GilmorePennsylvania · District 24Democratic1849–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeChapin HallPennsylvania · District 24Republican1859–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid BarclayPennsylvania · District 24Democratic1855–1857
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames GillisPennsylvania · District 24Democratic1857–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn BanksPennsylvania · District 24Anti Masonic1831–1837
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn PearsonPennsylvania · District 24Whig1835–1837
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph BuffingtonPennsylvania · District 24Whig1843–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas HenryPennsylvania · District 24Whig1837–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeArnold PlumerPennsylvania · District 25Democratic1837–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeElijah BabbittPennsylvania · District 25Republican1859–1863
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn GalbraithPennsylvania · District 25Democratic1833–1841
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