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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Iowa delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward EicherIowa · District 1Democratic1933–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry TalleIowa · District 2Republican1939–1959
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam JacobsenIowa · District 2Democratic1937–1943
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlbert WillfordIowa · District 3Democratic1933–1935
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn GwynneIowa · District 3Republican1935–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrederick BiermannIowa · District 4Democratic1933–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeKarl Le CompteIowa · District 4Republican1939–1959
- Former U.S. RepresentativePaul CunninghamIowa · District 5Republican1941–1959
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles HoevenIowa · District 6Republican1943–1965
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHubert UtterbackIowa · District 6Democratic1935–1937
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames DolliverIowa · District 6Republican1945–1957
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert GoodwinIowa · District 6Republican1939–1941
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenton JensenIowa · District 7Republican1939–1965
- Former U.S. RepresentativeOtha WearinIowa · District 7Democratic1933–1939
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarry NareyIowa · District 9Republican1941–1943
- Former U.S. RepresentativeVincent HarringtonIowa · District 9Democratic1937–1943
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