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 →- Edwin ChampionIllinoisAt-LargeDemocratic1937–1939
- Emily DouglasIllinoisAt-LargeDemocratic1945–1947
- John MartinIllinoisAt-LargeDemocratic1939–1941
- Lewis LongIllinoisAt-LargeDemocratic1937–1939
- Martin BrennanIllinoisAt-LargeDemocratic1933–1937
- Michael IgoeIllinoisAt-LargeDemocratic1935–1937
- Stephen DayIllinoisAt-LargeRepublican1941–1945
- Thomas SmithIllinoisAt-LargeDemocratic1939–1941
- Walter NesbitIllinoisAt-LargeDemocratic1933–1935
- William StrattonIllinoisAt-LargeRepublican1941–1949
- Arthur MitchellIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1935–1943
- William DawsonIllinoisDistrict 1Democratic1943–1971
- Patrick MoynihanIllinoisDistrict 2Republican1933–1935
- Raymond McKeoughIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1935–1943
- William RowanIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1943–1947
- Fred BusbeyIllinoisDistrict 3Republican1943–1955
- Martin GorskiIllinoisDistrict 5Democratic1943–1951
- Anton MaciejewskiIllinoisDistrict 6Democratic1939–1943
- Thomas O’BrienIllinoisDistrict 6Democratic1933–1965
- William LinkIllinoisDistrict 7Democratic1945–1947
- Leo KocialkowskiIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1933–1943
- Thomas GordonIllinoisDistrict 8Democratic1943–1959
- Alexander ResaIllinoisDistrict 9Democratic1945–1947
- Charles DeweyIllinoisDistrict 9Republican1941–1945
- George PaddockIllinoisDistrict 10Republican1941–1943
- James Simpson Jr.IllinoisDistrict 10Republican1933–1935
- Ralph ChurchIllinoisDistrict 13Republican1935–1951
- Anton JohnsonIllinoisDistrict 14Republican1939–1949
- Chauncey ReedIllinoisDistrict 14Republican1935–1957
- Chester ThompsonIllinoisDistrict 14Democratic1933–1939
- Jackson AdairIllinoisDistrict 15Democratic1933–1937
- Leslie ArendsIllinoisDistrict 15Republican1935–1975
- Lewis BoyerIllinoisDistrict 15Democratic1937–1939
- Noah MasonIllinoisDistrict 15Republican1937–1963
- Leo AllenIllinoisDistrict 16Republican1933–1961
- James GillespieIllinoisDistrict 17Democratic1933–1935
- James MeeksIllinoisDistrict 18Democratic1933–1939
- Jessie SumnerIllinoisDistrict 18Republican1939–1947
- Donald DobbinsIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1933–1937
- Hugh RigneyIllinoisDistrict 19Democratic1937–1939
- Robert ChiperfieldIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1939–1963
- William WheatIllinoisDistrict 19Republican1939–1945
- James BarnesIllinoisDistrict 20Democratic1939–1943
- Sidney SimpsonIllinoisDistrict 20Republican1943–1959
- Charles PriceIllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1945–1988
- Frank FriesIllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1937–1941
- George HowellIllinoisDistrict 21Republican1941–1949
- Harry MasonIllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1935–1937
- Calvin JohnsonIllinoisDistrict 22Republican1943–1945
- Edwin SchaeferIllinoisDistrict 22Democratic1933–1943
- Rolla McMillenIllinoisDistrict 22Republican1943–1951
- Charles VursellIllinoisDistrict 23Republican1943–1959
- Laurence ArnoldIllinoisDistrict 23Democratic1937–1943
- James HeidingerIllinoisDistrict 24Republican1941–1947
- Roy ClippingerIllinoisDistrict 24Republican1945–1949
- Runt BishopIllinoisDistrict 25Republican1941–1955
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