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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South Carolina delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativePreston BrooksSouth Carolina · At-LargeDemocratic1853–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel WallaceSouth Carolina · District 1Democratic1847–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHugh LegaréSouth Carolina · District 1Democratic1837–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames BlackSouth Carolina · District 1Democratic1843–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn McQueenSouth Carolina · District 1Democratic1847–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard SimpsonSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1843–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam AikenSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1851–1857
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam MilesSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1857–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph WoodwardSouth Carolina · District 3Democratic1843–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLaurence KeittSouth Carolina · District 3Democratic1853–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlexander SimsSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1845–1849
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn CampbellSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1829–1845
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMilledge BonhamSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1857–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSampson ButlerSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1839–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel TrottiSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1841–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeArmistead BurtSouth Carolina · District 5Democratic1843–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrancis PickensSouth Carolina · District 5Democratic1833–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames OrrSouth Carolina · District 5Democratic1849–1859
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn AshmoreSouth Carolina · District 5Democratic1859–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeIsaac HolmesSouth Carolina · District 6Democratic1839–1851
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam BoyceSouth Carolina · District 6Democratic1853–1861
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames RogersSouth Carolina · District 7Democratic1835–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam ColcockSouth Carolina · District 7Democratic1849–1853
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn RichardsonSouth Carolina · District 8Democratic1835–1839
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas SumterSouth Carolina · District 8Democratic1839–1843
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn GriffinSouth Carolina · District 9Democratic1831–1841
- Former U.S. RepresentativePatrick CaldwellSouth Carolina · District 9Democratic1841–1843
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