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 →- Bennett StewartIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1979–1981
- Bobby RushIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1993–2023
- Charles HayesIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1983–1993
- Harold WashingtonIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1981–1985
- Gus SavageIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1981–1993
- Jesse Jackson Jr.IllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1995–2012
- Mel ReynoldsIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1993–1995
- William LipinskiIllinoisDistrict 3Democratic1983–2005
- Jack DavisIllinoisDistrict 4Republican1987–1989
- Luis GutiérrezIllinoisDistrict 4Democratic1993–2019
- Michael FlanaganIllinoisDistrict 5Republican1995–1997
- Rod BlagojevichIllinoisDistrict 5Democratic1997–2003
- John PorterIllinoisDistrict 10Republican1979–2001
- George SangmeisterIllinoisDistrict 11Democratic1989–1995
- Jerry WellerIllinoisDistrict 11Republican1995–2009
- Jerry CostelloIllinoisDistrict 12Democratic1988–2013
- Harris FawellIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1985–1999
- Judy BiggertIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1999–2013
- Denny HastertIllinoisDistrict 14Republican1987–2007
- John GrotbergIllinoisDistrict 14Republican1985–1987
- Thomas CorcoranIllinoisDistrict 14Republican1977–1985
- John ShimkusIllinoisDistrict 15Republican1997–2021
- Thomas EwingIllinoisDistrict 15Republican1991–2001
- Donald ManzulloIllinoisDistrict 16Republican1993–2013
- John Cox Jr.IllinoisDistrict 16Democratic1991–1993
- Lynn MartinIllinoisDistrict 16Republican1981–1991
- Lane EvansIllinoisDistrict 17Democratic1983–2007
- Ray LaHoodIllinoisDistrict 18Republican1995–2009
- Daniel CraneIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1979–1985
- David PhelpsIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1999–2003
- Glenn PoshardIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1989–1999
- Terry BruceIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1985–1993
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