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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Minnesota delegation →- Arlen ErdahlMinnesotaDistrict 1Republican1979–1983
- Gil GutknechtMinnesotaDistrict 1Republican1995–2007
- Timothy PennyMinnesotaDistrict 1Democratic1983–1995
- David MingeMinnesotaDistrict 2Democratic1993–2001
- John WeberMinnesotaDistrict 2Republican1981–1993
- Jim RamstadMinnesotaDistrict 3Republican1991–2009
- Bruce VentoMinnesotaDistrict 4Democratic1977–2001
- Martin SaboMinnesotaDistrict 5Democratic1979–2007
- Gerald SikorskiMinnesotaDistrict 6Democratic1983–1993
- William LutherMinnesotaDistrict 6Democratic1995–2003
- Arlan StangelandMinnesotaDistrict 7Republican1977–1991
- Collin PetersonMinnesotaDistrict 7Democratic1991–2021
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