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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Mississippi delegation →- David DicksonMississippiAt-LargeAnti-Jacksonian1835–1837
- Franklin PlummerMississippiAt-LargeJackson1831–1835
- Harry CageMississippiAt-LargeJackson1833–1835
- Henry EllettMississippiAt-LargeDemocratic1845–1847
- John ClaiborneMississippiAt-LargeDemocratic1835–1839
- Robert RobertsMississippiAt-LargeDemocratic1843–1847
- Samuel GholsonMississippiAt-LargeDemocratic1835–1839
- Seargent PrentissMississippiAt-LargeWhig1837–1839
- Thomas WordMississippiAt-LargeWhig1837–1839
- Tilghman TuckerMississippiAt-LargeDemocratic1843–1845
- William HammettMississippiAt-LargeDemocratic1843–1845
- Benjamin NabersMississippiDistrict 1Unionist1851–1853
- Daniel WrightMississippiDistrict 1Democratic1853–1857
- Jacob ThompsonMississippiDistrict 1Democratic1839–1851
- Thomas HindsMississippiDistrict 1Jackson1827–1831
- William HaileMississippiDistrict 1Jackson1825–1829
- Hendley BennettMississippiDistrict 2Democratic1855–1857
- John WilcoxMississippiDistrict 2Unionist1851–1853
- Reuben DavisMississippiDistrict 2Democratic1857–1861
- William BarryMississippiDistrict 2Democratic1853–1855
- Winfield FeatherstonMississippiDistrict 2Democratic1847–1851
- John FreemanMississippiDistrict 3Unionist1851–1853
- Patrick TompkinsMississippiDistrict 3Whig1847–1849
- William BarksdaleMississippiDistrict 3Democratic1853–1861
- William McWillieMississippiDistrict 3Democratic1849–1851
- Wiley HarrisMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1853–1855
- William LakeMississippiDistrict 4American1855–1857
- John QuitmanMississippiDistrict 5Democratic1855–1859
- Otho SingletonMississippiDistrict 5Democratic1853–1887
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