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.
Michigan1
Michigan delegation →Minnesota19
Minnesota delegation →- Einar HoidaleMinnesotaAt-LargeDemocratic1933–1935
- Francis ShoemakerMinnesotaAt-LargeFarmer-Labor1933–1935
- Henry ArensMinnesotaAt-LargeFarmer-Labor1933–1935
- Ray ChaseMinnesotaAt-LargeRepublican1933–1935
- Elmer RyanMinnesotaDistrict 2Democratic1935–1941
- Joseph O’HaraMinnesotaDistrict 2Republican1941–1959
- Henry TeiganMinnesotaDistrict 3Farmer-Labor1937–1939
- John AlexanderMinnesotaDistrict 3Republican1939–1941
- Richard GaleMinnesotaDistrict 3Republican1941–1945
- William GallagherMinnesotaDistrict 3Democratic1945–1947
- Frank StarkeyMinnesotaDistrict 4Democratic1945–1947
- Dewey JohnsonMinnesotaDistrict 5Farmer-Labor1937–1939
- Oscar YoungdahlMinnesotaDistrict 5Republican1939–1943
- Theodore ChristiansonMinnesotaDistrict 5Republican1933–1937
- Walter JuddMinnesotaDistrict 5Republican1943–1963
- Herman AndersenMinnesotaDistrict 7Republican1939–1963
- John BernardMinnesotaDistrict 8Farmer-Labor1937–1939
- Harold HagenMinnesotaDistrict 9Republican1943–1955
- Richard BucklerMinnesotaDistrict 9Farmer-Labor1935–1943
Mississippi7
Mississippi delegation →- Jamie WhittenMississippiDistrict 1Democratic1941–1995
- Thomas AbernethyMississippiDistrict 1Democratic1943–1973
- Aaron FordMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1935–1943
- William WinsteadMississippiDistrict 4Democratic1943–1965
- Aubert DunnMississippiDistrict 5Democratic1935–1937
- William ColmerMississippiDistrict 5Democratic1933–1973
- Daniel McGeheeMississippiDistrict 7Democratic1935–1947
Missouri19
Missouri delegation →- Frank LeeMissouriAt-LargeDemocratic1933–1935
- James RuffinMissouriAt-LargeDemocratic1933–1935
- Wat ArnoldMissouriDistrict 1Republican1943–1949
- Max SchwabeMissouriDistrict 2Republican1943–1949
- Richard DuncanMissouriDistrict 3Democratic1933–1943
- Charles BellMissouriDistrict 4Democratic1935–1949
- Roger SlaughterMissouriDistrict 5Democratic1943–1947
- Marion BennettMissouriDistrict 6Republican1943–1949
- Philip BennettMissouriDistrict 6Republican1941–1943
- Reuben WoodMissouriDistrict 6Democratic1933–1941
- William ColeMissouriDistrict 6Republican1943–1955
- Albert CarnahanMissouriDistrict 8Democratic1945–1961
- William ElmerMissouriDistrict 8Republican1943–1945
- Orville ZimmermanMissouriDistrict 10Democratic1935–1949
- John SullivanMissouriDistrict 11Democratic1941–1953
- Louis MillerMissouriDistrict 11Republican1943–1945
- Charles AndersonMissouriDistrict 12Democratic1937–1941
- James ClaiborneMissouriDistrict 12Democratic1933–1937
- Walter PloeserMissouriDistrict 12Republican1941–1949
Montana6
Montana delegation →Nebraska11
Nebraska delegation →- George HeinkeNebraskaDistrict 1Republican1939–1941
- Henry LuckeyNebraskaDistrict 1Democratic1935–1939
- John SweetNebraskaDistrict 1Republican1939–1941
- Oren CopelandNebraskaDistrict 1Republican1941–1943
- Charles McLaughlinNebraskaDistrict 2Democratic1935–1943
- Howard BuffettNebraskaDistrict 2Republican1943–1953
- Karl StefanNebraskaDistrict 3Republican1935–1953
- Arthur MillerNebraskaDistrict 4Republican1943–1959
- Charles BinderupNebraskaDistrict 4Democratic1935–1939
- Harry CoffeeNebraskaDistrict 5Democratic1935–1943
- Terry CarpenterNebraskaDistrict 5Democratic1933–1935
Nevada1
Nevada delegation →New Hampshire5
New Hampshire delegation →New Jersey18
New Jersey delegation →- Elmer WeneNew JerseyDistrict 2Democratic1937–1945
- Thomas HandNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1945–1957
- Walter JeffriesNew JerseyDistrict 2Republican1939–1941
- James AuchinclossNew JerseyDistrict 3Republican1943–1965
- David PowersNew JerseyDistrict 4Republican1933–1947
- Frank Mathews Jr.New JerseyDistrict 4Republican1945–1949
- Donald McLeanNew JerseyDistrict 6Republican1933–1945
- John ThomasNew JerseyDistrict 7Republican1937–1951
- Gordon CanfieldNew JerseyDistrict 8Republican1941–1961
- Edward KenneyNew JerseyDistrict 9Democratic1933–1939
- Frank Osmers Jr.New JerseyDistrict 9Republican1939–1965
- Harry ToweNew JerseyDistrict 9Republican1943–1953
- Albert VreelandNew JerseyDistrict 11Republican1939–1943
- Edward O’NeillNew JerseyDistrict 11Democratic1937–1939
- Frank SundstromNew JerseyDistrict 11Republican1943–1949
- Frank Towey Jr.New JerseyDistrict 12Democratic1937–1939
- Robert KeanNew JerseyDistrict 12Republican1939–1959
- Edward HartNew JerseyDistrict 14Democratic1935–1955
New Mexico2
New Mexico delegation →New York11
New York delegation →- Caroline O’DayNew YorkAt-LargeDemocratic1935–1943
- Elmer StudleyNew YorkAt-LargeDemocratic1933–1935
- John FitzgibbonsNew YorkAt-LargeDemocratic1933–1935
- Matthew MerrittNew YorkAt-LargeDemocratic1935–1945
- Winifred StanleyNew YorkAt-LargeRepublican1943–1945
- Edgar SharpNew YorkDistrict 1Republican1945–1947
- Leonard HallNew YorkDistrict 2Republican1939–1953
- Henry LathamNew YorkDistrict 4Republican1945–1959
- William BarryNew YorkDistrict 4Democratic1935–1947
- James RoeNew YorkDistrict 5Democratic1945–1947
- Marcellus EvansNew YorkDistrict 5Democratic1935–1941
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