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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Maine delegation →- Samuel HerseyMaineAt-LargeRepublican1873–1877
- John BurleighMaineDistrict 1Republican1873–1877
- John LynchMaineDistrict 1Republican1865–1873
- Lorenzo SweatMaineDistrict 1Democratic1863–1865
- Thomas ReedMaineDistrict 1Republican1877–1901
- Charles WaltonMaineDistrict 2Republican1861–1863
- Samuel MorrillMaineDistrict 2Republican1869–1871
- Sidney PerhamMaineDistrict 2Republican1863–1869
- Thomas FessendenMaineDistrict 2Republican1861–1863
- Edwin FlyeMaineDistrict 3Republican1875–1877
- Samuel FessendenMaineDistrict 3Republican1861–1863
- Stephen LindseyMaineDistrict 3Republican1877–1883
- Anson MorrillMaineDistrict 4Republican1861–1863
- Harris PlaistedMaineDistrict 4Republican1875–1877
- John PetersMaineDistrict 4Republican1867–1873
- John RiceMaineDistrict 4Republican1861–1867
- Llewellyn PowersMaineDistrict 4Republican1877–1909
- Frederick PikeMaineDistrict 5Republican1861–1869
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