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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Tennessee delegation →- James RandolphTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1877–1879
- Roderick ButlerTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1867–1889
- William McFarlandTennesseeDistrict 1Democratic1875–1877
- Jacob ThornburghTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1873–1879
- Abraham GarrettTennesseeDistrict 3Democratic1871–1873
- George BridgesTennesseeDistrict 3Unionist1861–1863
- George DibrellTennesseeDistrict 3Democratic1875–1885
- William CrutchfieldTennesseeDistrict 3Republican1873–1875
- Andrew ClementsTennesseeDistrict 4Unionist1861–1863
- Edmund CooperTennesseeDistrict 4Unionist1865–1867
- Haywood RiddleTennesseeDistrict 4Democratic1875–1879
- James MullinsTennesseeDistrict 4Republican1867–1869
- Lewis TillmanTennesseeDistrict 4Republican1869–1871
- Samuel FiteTennesseeDistrict 4Democratic1875–1877
- Edward GolladayTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1871–1873
- Horace HarrisonTennesseeDistrict 5Republican1873–1875
- John BrightTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1871–1881
- John TrimbleTennesseeDistrict 5Republican1867–1869
- William ProsserTennesseeDistrict 5Republican1869–1871
- John HouseTennesseeDistrict 6Democratic1875–1883
- Samuel ArnellTennesseeDistrict 6Republican1865–1871
- Isaac HawkinsTennesseeDistrict 7Republican1865–1871
- Robert CaldwellTennesseeDistrict 7Democratic1871–1873
- David NunnTennesseeDistrict 8Republican1867–1875
- John LeftwichTennesseeDistrict 8Unionist1865–1867
- William SmithTennesseeDistrict 8Republican1869–1871
- William VaughanTennesseeDistrict 8Democratic1871–1873
- Barbour LewisTennesseeDistrict 9Republican1873–1875
- William CaldwellTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1875–1879
- Hiram YoungTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1875–1885
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