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.
Kentucky19
Kentucky delegation →- Carroll Hubbard Jr.KentuckyDistrict 1Democratic1975–1993
- Frank StubblefieldKentuckyDistrict 1Democratic1959–1975
- John WhitakerKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1948–1951
- William NatcherKentuckyDistrict 2Democratic1953–1994
- Charles FarnsleyKentuckyDistrict 3Democratic1965–1967
- Frank BurkeKentuckyDistrict 3Democratic1959–1963
- John Robsion Jr.KentuckyDistrict 3Republican1953–1959
- Romano MazzoliKentuckyDistrict 3Democratic1971–1995
- William CowgerKentuckyDistrict 3Republican1967–1971
- Marion SnyderKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1963–1987
- Eugene SilerKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1955–1965
- Tim CarterKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1965–1981
- John BreckinridgeKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1973–1979
- John WattsKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1951–1973
- William Curlin Jr.KentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1971–1973
- Carl PerkinsKentuckyDistrict 7Democratic1949–1985
- Wendell MeadeKentuckyDistrict 7Republican1947–1949
- James GoldenKentuckyDistrict 8Republican1949–1955
- William LewisKentuckyDistrict 9Republican1947–1949
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