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 →- George McCraryIowaDistrict 1Republican1869–1877
- Joseph StoneIowaDistrict 1Republican1877–1879
- Aylett CottonIowaDistrict 2Republican1871–1875
- Hiram PriceIowaDistrict 2Republican1863–1881
- John TuftsIowaDistrict 2Republican1875–1877
- William SmythIowaDistrict 2Republican1869–1871
- William WolfIowaDistrict 2Republican1869–1871
- Lucien AinsworthIowaDistrict 3Democratic1875–1877
- Theodore BurdickIowaDistrict 3Republican1877–1879
- William DonnanIowaDistrict 3Republican1871–1875
- Henry PrattIowaDistrict 4Republican1873–1877
- Josiah GrinnellIowaDistrict 4Republican1863–1867
- Madison WaldenIowaDistrict 4Republican1871–1873
- Nathaniel DeeringIowaDistrict 4Republican1877–1883
- Francis PalmerIowaDistrict 5Republican1869–1873
- Grenville DodgeIowaDistrict 5Republican1867–1869
- James WilsonIowaDistrict 5Republican1873–1885
- Rush ClarkIowaDistrict 5Republican1877–1881
- Asahel HubbardIowaDistrict 6Republican1863–1869
- Charles PomeroyIowaDistrict 6Republican1869–1871
- Ezekiel SampsonIowaDistrict 6Republican1875–1879
- William LoughridgeIowaDistrict 6Republican1867–1875
- Henry CummingsIowaDistrict 7Republican1877–1879
- John KassonIowaDistrict 7Republican1863–1885
- William SappIowaDistrict 8Republican1877–1881
- Jackson OrrIowaDistrict 9Republican1871–1875
- Samuel OliverIowaDistrict 9Republican1875–1879
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