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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Illinois delegation →- James AllenIllinoisAt-LargeDemocratic1853–1865
- James MorrisonIllinoisAt-LargeDemocratic1855–1859
- Adam SnyderIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1837–1839
- Charles SladeIllinoisDistrict 1Jackson1833–1835
- John ReynoldsIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1833–1843
- John WentworthIllinoisDistrict 1Republican1843–1867
- James WoodworthIllinoisDistrict 2Ind. Republican-Democrat1855–1857
- John FarnsworthIllinoisDistrict 2Republican1857–1873
- Zadok CaseyIllinoisDistrict 2Ind. Democrat1833–1843
- Elihu WashburneIllinoisDistrict 3Republican1853–1871
- Joseph DuncanIllinoisDistrict 3Jackson1827–1835
- Orlando FicklinIllinoisDistrict 3Democratic1843–1853
- Timothy YoungIllinoisDistrict 3Democratic1849–1851
- William MayIllinoisDistrict 3Democratic1833–1839
- James KnoxIllinoisDistrict 4Ind. Republican-Democrat1853–1857
- Richard MolonyIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1851–1853
- William KelloggIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1857–1863
- Isaac MorrisIllinoisDistrict 5Democratic1857–1861
- Jacob DavisIllinoisDistrict 5Democratic1855–1857
- Owen LovejoyIllinoisDistrict 5Republican1857–1865
- Charles HodgesIllinoisDistrict 6Democratic1857–1859
- Jesse NortonIllinoisDistrict 6Republican1853–1865
- John McClernandIllinoisDistrict 6Democratic1843–1863
- Joseph HogeIllinoisDistrict 6Democratic1843–1847
- Thomas HarrisIllinoisDistrict 6Democratic1849–1859
- Thomas TurnerIllinoisDistrict 6Democratic1847–1849
- Thompson CampbellIllinoisDistrict 6Democratic1851–1853
- Abraham LincolnIllinoisDistrict 7Whig1847–1849
- John HardinIllinoisDistrict 7Whig1843–1845
- John HenryIllinoisDistrict 7Whig1845–1847
- John StuartIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1839–1865
- Philip FoukeIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1859–1863
- Robert SmithIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1843–1859
- William BissellIllinoisDistrict 8Ind. Democrat1849–1855
- Willis AllenIllinoisDistrict 9Democratic1851–1855
- James RobinsonIllinoisDistrict 12Democratic1859–1875
- Aaron ShawIllinoisDistrict 16Democratic1857–1885
- Samuel MarshallIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1855–1875
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