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 MezvinskyIowa · District 1Democratic1973–1977
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrederick SchwengelIowa · District 1Republican1955–1973
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn SchmidhauserIowa · District 1Democratic1965–1967
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames BromwellIowa · District 2Republican1961–1965
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLeonard WolfIowa · District 2Democratic1959–1961
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMichael BlouinIowa · District 2Democratic1975–1979
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarold GrossIowa · District 3Republican1949–1975
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBert BandstraIowa · District 4Democratic1965–1967
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn KylIowa · District 4Republican1959–1973
- Former U.S. RepresentativeNeal SmithIowa · District 4Democratic1959–1995
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSteven CarterIowa · District 4Democratic1959–1961
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam ScherleIowa · District 5Republican1967–1975
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBerkley BedellIowa · District 6Democratic1975–1987
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMerwin CoadIowa · District 6Democratic1957–1963
- Former U.S. RepresentativeStanley GreiggIowa · District 6Democratic1965–1967
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWiley MayneIowa · District 6Republican1967–1975
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn HansenIowa · District 7Democratic1965–1967
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