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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Illinois delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeDaniel LipinskiIllinois · District 3Democratic2005–2021
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMarie NewmanIllinois · District 3Democratic2021–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRahm EmanuelIllinois · District 5Democratic2003–2009
- Former U.S. RepresentativePeter RoskamIllinois · District 6Republican2007–2019
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoe WalshIllinois · District 8Republican2011–2013
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMelissa BeanIllinois · District 8Democratic2005–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBob DoldIllinois · District 10Republican2011–2017
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDeborah HalvorsonIllinois · District 11Democratic2009–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam EnyartIllinois · District 12Democratic2013–2015
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRodney DavisIllinois · District 13Republican2013–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRandy HultgrenIllinois · District 14Republican2011–2019
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTimothy JohnsonIllinois · District 15Republican2001–2013
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAdam KinzingerIllinois · District 16Republican2011–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBobby SchillingIllinois · District 17Republican2011–2013
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCheri BustosIllinois · District 17Democratic2013–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativePhil HareIllinois · District 17Democratic2007–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAaron SchockIllinois · District 18Republican2009–2015
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