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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Alabama delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames JonesAlabama · District 1Democratic1877–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHilary HerbertAlabama · District 2Democratic1877–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJeremiah WilliamsAlabama · District 3Democratic1875–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTaul BradfordAlabama · District 3Democratic1875–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam HandleyAlabama · District 3Democratic1871–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles ShelleyAlabama · District 4Democratic1877–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn CaldwellAlabama · District 5Democratic1873–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativePeter DoxAlabama · District 5Democratic1869–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert LigonAlabama · District 5Democratic1877–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBurwell LewisAlabama · District 6Democratic1875–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGoldsmith HewittAlabama · District 6Democratic1875–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph SlossAlabama · District 6Democratic1871–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam SherrodAlabama · District 6Democratic1869–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam ForneyAlabama · District 7Democratic1875–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam GarthAlabama · District 8Democratic1877–1879
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