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. RepresentativeStephen DayIllinois · At-LargeRepublican1941–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam StrattonIllinois · At-LargeRepublican1941–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativePatrick MoynihanIllinois · District 2Republican1933–1935
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFred BusbeyIllinois · District 3Republican1943–1955
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles DeweyIllinois · District 9Republican1941–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge PaddockIllinois · District 10Republican1941–1943
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames Simpson Jr.Illinois · District 10Republican1933–1935
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRalph ChurchIllinois · District 13Republican1935–1951
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAnton JohnsonIllinois · District 14Republican1939–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeChauncey ReedIllinois · District 14Republican1935–1957
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLeslie ArendsIllinois · District 15Republican1935–1975
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNoah MasonIllinois · District 15Republican1937–1963
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLeo AllenIllinois · District 16Republican1933–1961
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJessie SumnerIllinois · District 18Republican1939–1947
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert ChiperfieldIllinois · District 19Republican1939–1963
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam WheatIllinois · District 19Republican1939–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSidney SimpsonIllinois · District 20Republican1943–1959
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge HowellIllinois · District 21Republican1941–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCalvin JohnsonIllinois · District 22Republican1943–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRolla McMillenIllinois · District 22Republican1943–1951
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles VursellIllinois · District 23Republican1943–1959
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames HeidingerIllinois · District 24Republican1941–1947
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRoy ClippingerIllinois · District 24Republican1945–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRunt BishopIllinois · District 25Republican1941–1955
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