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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Louisiana delegation →- Eleazar RipleyLouisianaAt-LargeDemocratic1835–1841
- John DawsonLouisianaAt-LargeDemocratic1841–1847
- Edward WhiteLouisianaDistrict 1Whig1829–1843
- Emile La SéreLouisianaDistrict 1Democratic1845–1851
- George Eustis Jr.LouisianaDistrict 1American1855–1859
- John BoulignyLouisianaDistrict 1American1859–1861
- Louis St. MartinLouisianaDistrict 1Democratic1851–1887
- William DunbarLouisianaDistrict 1Democratic1853–1855
- Alcée La BrancheLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1843–1845
- Bannon ThibodeauxLouisianaDistrict 2Whig1845–1849
- Henry BullardLouisianaDistrict 2Whig1831–1851
- Joseph LandryLouisianaDistrict 2Whig1851–1853
- Miles TaylorLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1855–1861
- Philemon ThomasLouisianaDistrict 21831–1835
- Theodore HuntLouisianaDistrict 2Whig1853–1855
- Thomas ChinnLouisianaDistrict 2Whig1839–1841
- Alexander PennLouisianaDistrict 3Democratic1849–1853
- John HarmansonLouisianaDistrict 3Democratic1845–1851
- John Perkins Jr.LouisianaDistrict 3Democratic1853–1855
- Rice GarlandLouisianaDistrict 3Whig1833–1841
- Thomas DavidsonLouisianaDistrict 3Democratic1855–1861
- Walter OvertonLouisianaDistrict 3Jackson1829–1831
- Isaac MorseLouisianaDistrict 4Democratic1843–1851
- John LandrumLouisianaDistrict 4Democratic1859–1861
- John MooreLouisianaDistrict 4Whig1839–1853
- John SandidgeLouisianaDistrict 4Democratic1855–1859
- Pierre BossierLouisianaDistrict 4Democratic1843–1845
- Roland JonesLouisianaDistrict 4Democratic1853–1855
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