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 →- Former U.S. RepresentativeSilvio ConteMassachusetts · District 1Republican1959–1991
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward BolandMassachusetts · District 2Democratic1953–1989
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn FurcoloMassachusetts · District 2Democratic1949–1953
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarold DonohueMassachusetts · District 3Democratic1947–1975
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph EarlyMassachusetts · District 3Democratic1975–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert DrinanMassachusetts · District 4Democratic1971–1981
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrank MorseMassachusetts · District 5Republican1961–1973
- Former U.S. RepresentativePaul CroninMassachusetts · District 5Republican1973–1975
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMichael HarringtonMassachusetts · District 6Democratic1969–1979
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam BatesMassachusetts · District 6Republican1949–1971
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTorbert MacdonaldMassachusetts · District 7Democratic1955–1977
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTip O’Neill Jr.Massachusetts · District 8Democratic1953–1987
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDonald NicholsonMassachusetts · District 9Republican1947–1959
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn MoakleyMassachusetts · District 9Democratic1973–2001
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLouise HicksMassachusetts · District 9Democratic1971–1973
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGerry StuddsMassachusetts · District 10Democratic1973–1997
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLaurence CurtisMassachusetts · District 10Republican1953–1963
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMargaret HecklerMassachusetts · District 10Republican1967–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames BurkeMassachusetts · District 11Democratic1959–1979
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHastings KeithMassachusetts · District 12Republican1959–1973
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