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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Louisiana delegation →- Lindy BoggsLouisianaDistrict 2Democratic1973–1991
- David TreenLouisianaDistrict 3Republican1973–1981
- Edwin WillisLouisianaDistrict 3Democratic1949–1969
- Patrick CafferyLouisianaDistrict 3Democratic1969–1973
- Joseph Waggonner Jr.LouisianaDistrict 4Democratic1961–1979
- Otto PassmanLouisianaDistrict 5Democratic1947–1977
- John RarickLouisianaDistrict 6Democratic1967–1975
- William Moore IIILouisianaDistrict 6Republican1975–1987
- Edwin EdwardsLouisianaDistrict 7Democratic1965–1973
- Theo ThompsonLouisianaDistrict 7Democratic1953–1967
- George LongLouisianaDistrict 8Democratic1953–1959
- Gillis LongLouisianaDistrict 8Democratic1963–1987
- Harold McSweenLouisianaDistrict 8Democratic1959–1963
- Speedy LongLouisianaDistrict 8Democratic1965–1973
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