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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Virginia delegation →- Joseph SegarVirginiaAt-LargeUnionist1861–1865
- Beverly DouglasVirginiaDistrict 1Democratic1875–1879
- James SenerVirginiaDistrict 1Republican1873–1875
- John CritcherVirginiaDistrict 1Democratic1871–1873
- Richard AyerVirginiaDistrict 1Republican1869–1871
- James Platt Jr.VirginiaDistrict 2Republican1869–1875
- John Goode Jr.VirginiaDistrict 2Democratic1875–1881
- Charles PorterVirginiaDistrict 3Republican1869–1873
- Gilbert WalkerVirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1875–1879
- John SmithVirginiaDistrict 3Republican1873–1875
- George BookerVirginiaDistrict 4Conservative1869–1871
- Joseph JorgensenVirginiaDistrict 4Republican1877–1883
- William StowellVirginiaDistrict 4Republican1871–1877
- Alexander DavisVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1873–1875
- Christopher ThomasVirginiaDistrict 5Republican1873–1875
- George CabellVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1875–1887
- Richard DukeVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1869–1873
- Robert RidgwayVirginiaDistrict 5Conservative1867–1871
- Thomas WhiteheadVirginiaDistrict 6Democratic1873–1875
- William Milnes Jr.VirginiaDistrict 6Conservative1869–1871
- Charles UptonVirginiaDistrict 7Unionist1861–1863
- Elliott BraxtonVirginiaDistrict 7Democratic1871–1873
- Lewis McKenzieVirginiaDistrict 7Conservative1861–1871
- James GibsonVirginiaDistrict 8Conservative1869–1871
- Auburn PridemoreVirginiaDistrict 9Democratic1877–1879
- Rees BowenVirginiaDistrict 9Democratic1873–1875
- William TerryVirginiaDistrict 9Democratic1871–1877
- John TuckerVirginiaDistrict 10Democratic1875–1887
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