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. RepresentativeJohn BlackIllinois · At-LargeDemocratic1893–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam WilliamsIllinois · At-LargeDemocratic1899–1917
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrank LawlerIllinois · District 2Democratic1885–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAllan Durborow Jr.Illinois · District 3Democratic1891–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames WardIllinois · District 3Democratic1885–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLawrence McGannIllinois · District 3Democratic1891–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge FosterIllinois · District 4Democratic1899–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJulius GoldzierIllinois · District 4Democratic1893–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas CusackIllinois · District 4Democratic1899–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWalter NewberryIllinois · District 4Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward NoonanIllinois · District 5Democratic1899–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLewis StewardIllinois · District 8Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHerman SnowIllinois · District 9Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNicholas WorthingtonIllinois · District 10Democratic1883–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin CableIllinois · District 11Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames SingletonIllinois · District 11Democratic1879–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam NeeceIllinois · District 11Democratic1883–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge AndersonIllinois · District 12Democratic1887–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames RiggsIllinois · District 12Democratic1883–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn McDannoldIllinois · District 12Democratic1893–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOwen ScottIllinois · District 14Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel BuseyIllinois · District 15Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFinis DowningIllinois · District 16Democratic1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge FithianIllinois · District 16Democratic1889–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSilas LandesIllinois · District 16Democratic1885–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam HinrichsenIllinois · District 16Democratic1897–1899
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward LaneIllinois · District 17Democratic1887–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas JettIllinois · District 18Democratic1897–1903
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam FormanIllinois · District 18Democratic1889–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew HunterIllinois · District 19Democratic1893–1899
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames CampbellIllinois · District 20Democratic1897–1899
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBen CaldwellIllinois · District 21Democratic1899–1909
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph CrowleyIllinois · District 23Democratic1899–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames WilliamsIllinois · District 24Democratic1889–1905
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