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. RepresentativeBennett StewartIllinois · District 1Democratic1979–1981
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBobby RushIllinois · District 1Democratic1993–2023
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles HayesIllinois · District 1Democratic1983–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarold WashingtonIllinois · District 1Democratic1981–1985
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGus SavageIllinois · District 2Democratic1981–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJesse Jackson Jr.Illinois · District 2Democratic1995–2012
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMel ReynoldsIllinois · District 2Democratic1993–1995
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam LipinskiIllinois · District 3Democratic1983–2005
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLuis GutiérrezIllinois · District 4Democratic1993–2019
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRod BlagojevichIllinois · District 5Democratic1997–2003
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge SangmeisterIllinois · District 11Democratic1989–1995
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJerry CostelloIllinois · District 12Democratic1988–2013
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn Cox Jr.Illinois · District 16Democratic1991–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLane EvansIllinois · District 17Democratic1983–2007
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDavid PhelpsIllinois · District 19Democratic1999–2003
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGlenn PoshardIllinois · District 19Democratic1989–1999
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTerry BruceIllinois · District 19Democratic1985–1993
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