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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Massachusetts delegation →- John HeseltonMassachusettsDistrict 1Republican1945–1959
- Charles ClasonMassachusettsDistrict 2Republican1937–1949
- Joseph CaseyMassachusettsDistrict 3Democratic1935–1943
- Philip PhilbinMassachusettsDistrict 3Democratic1943–1971
- George BatesMassachusettsDistrict 6Republican1937–1951
- Lawrence ConneryMassachusettsDistrict 7Democratic1937–1943
- Thomas LaneMassachusettsDistrict 7Democratic1941–1963
- Angier GoodwinMassachusettsDistrict 8Republican1943–1955
- Arthur HealeyMassachusettsDistrict 8Democratic1933–1943
- Richard RussellMassachusettsDistrict 9Democratic1935–1937
- Thomas EliotMassachusettsDistrict 9Democratic1941–1943
- Christian HerterMassachusettsDistrict 10Republican1943–1953
- John HigginsMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1935–1939
- Thomas FlahertyMassachusettsDistrict 11Democratic1937–1943
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