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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Maryland delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames StewartMaryland · District 1Democratic1855–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativePhillip ThomasMaryland · District 1Democratic1839–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJacob ShowerMaryland · District 2Democratic1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas PerryMaryland · District 2Democratic1845–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles SewallMaryland · District 3Democratic1831–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward HammondMaryland · District 3Democratic1849–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames WilliamsMaryland · District 3Democratic1841–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn WorthingtonMaryland · District 3Democratic1831–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoshua Van SantMaryland · District 3Democratic1853–1855
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas LigonMaryland · District 3Democratic1845–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin HowardMaryland · District 4Democratic1829–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames CarrollMaryland · District 4Democratic1839–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert McLaneMaryland · District 4Democratic1847–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSolomon Hillen Solomon Jr.Maryland · District 4Democratic1839–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam GilesMaryland · District 4Democratic1845–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlbert ConstableMaryland · District 5Democratic1845–1847
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJacob KunkelMaryland · District 5Democratic1857–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge HughesMaryland · District 6Democratic1859–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn MasonMaryland · District 6Democratic1841–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas BowieMaryland · District 6Democratic1855–1859
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