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.
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
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