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.
Connecticut17
Connecticut delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames PrattConnecticut · District 1Democratic1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLoren WaldoConnecticut · District 1Democratic1849–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas SeymourConnecticut · District 1Democratic1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeColin IngersollConnecticut · District 2Democratic1851–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn StewartConnecticut · District 2Democratic1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel ArnoldConnecticut · District 2Democratic1857–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel InghamConnecticut · District 2Democratic1835–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeChauncey ClevelandConnecticut · District 3Democratic1849–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeElisha HaleyConnecticut · District 3Democratic1835–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge CatlinConnecticut · District 3Democratic1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNathan BelcherConnecticut · District 3Democratic1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOrigen SeymourConnecticut · District 4Democratic1851–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel SimonsConnecticut · District 4Democratic1843–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas WhittleseyConnecticut · District 4Democratic1835–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam BishopConnecticut · District 4Democratic1857–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLancelot PhelpsConnecticut · District 5Democratic1835–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOrrin HoltConnecticut · District 6Democratic1835–1839
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