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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Maryland delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge CovingtonMaryland · District 1Democratic1881–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry PageMaryland · District 1Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn BrownMaryland · District 1Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoshua MilesMaryland · District 1Democratic1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert BrattonMaryland · District 1Democratic1893–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWinder HenryMaryland · District 1Democratic1893–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrank ShawMaryland · District 2Democratic1885–1889
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHerman StumpMaryland · District 2Democratic1889–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoshua TalbottMaryland · District 2Democratic1879–1919
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFetter HoblitzellMaryland · District 3Democratic1881–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarry RuskMaryland · District 3Democratic1885–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam ColeMaryland · District 3Democratic1885–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames DennyMaryland · District 4Democratic1899–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn CowenMaryland · District 4Democratic1895–1897
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn FindlayMaryland · District 4Democratic1883–1887
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew ChapmanMaryland · District 5Democratic1881–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBarnes ComptonMaryland · District 5Democratic1885–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam McKaigMaryland · District 6Democratic1891–1895
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