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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Iowa delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge McCraryIowa · District 1Republican1869–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph StoneIowa · District 1Republican1877–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAylett CottonIowa · District 2Republican1871–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHiram PriceIowa · District 2Republican1863–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn TuftsIowa · District 2Republican1875–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam SmythIowa · District 2Republican1869–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam WolfIowa · District 2Republican1869–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLucien AinsworthIowa · District 3Democratic1875–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTheodore BurdickIowa · District 3Republican1877–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam DonnanIowa · District 3Republican1871–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry PrattIowa · District 4Republican1873–1877
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJosiah GrinnellIowa · District 4Republican1863–1867
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMadison WaldenIowa · District 4Republican1871–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNathaniel DeeringIowa · District 4Republican1877–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrancis PalmerIowa · District 5Republican1869–1873
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGrenville DodgeIowa · District 5Republican1867–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames WilsonIowa · District 5Republican1873–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRush ClarkIowa · District 5Republican1877–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAsahel HubbardIowa · District 6Republican1863–1869
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles PomeroyIowa · District 6Republican1869–1871
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEzekiel SampsonIowa · District 6Republican1875–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam LoughridgeIowa · District 6Republican1867–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry CummingsIowa · District 7Republican1877–1879
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn KassonIowa · District 7Republican1863–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam SappIowa · District 8Republican1877–1881
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJackson OrrIowa · District 9Republican1871–1875
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel OliverIowa · District 9Republican1875–1879
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