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.
South Carolina21
South Carolina delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid FinleySouth Carolina · At-LargeDemocratic1899–1919
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames IzlarSouth Carolina · District 1Democratic1893–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn RichardsonSouth Carolina · District 1Democratic1879–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel DibbleSouth Carolina · District 1Democratic1881–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam BrawleySouth Carolina · District 1Democratic1891–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam ElliottSouth Carolina · District 1Democratic1887–1903
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge TillmanSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1879–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMichael O’ConnorSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1879–1883
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam TalbertSouth Carolina · District 2Democratic1893–1903
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge JohnstoneSouth Carolina · District 3Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames CothranSouth Carolina · District 3Democratic1887–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge ShellSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1891–1895
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn BrattonSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1883–1885
- Former U.S. RepresentativeStanyarne WilsonSouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1895–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam PerrySouth Carolina · District 4Democratic1885–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HemphillSouth Carolina · District 5Democratic1883–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeThomas StraitSouth Carolina · District 5Democratic1893–1899
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEli StackhouseSouth Carolina · District 6Democratic1891–1893
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge DarganSouth Carolina · District 6Democratic1883–1891
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames NortonSouth Carolina · District 6Democratic1897–1901
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames StokesSouth Carolina · District 7Democratic1895–1903
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