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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Texas delegation →- Sam Hall Jr.TexasDistrict 1Democratic1975–1987
- Charles WilsonTexasDistrict 2Democratic1973–1997
- John DowdyTexasDistrict 2Democratic1951–1973
- Brady GentryTexasDistrict 3Democratic1953–1957
- James CollinsTexasDistrict 3Republican1967–1983
- Joe PoolTexasDistrict 3Democratic1963–1969
- Herbert RobertsTexasDistrict 4Democratic1961–1981
- Alan SteelmanTexasDistrict 5Republican1973–1977
- Bruce AlgerTexasDistrict 5Republican1955–1965
- Earle CabellTexasDistrict 5Democratic1965–1973
- Joseph WilsonTexasDistrict 5Democratic1947–1955
- Olin TeagueTexasDistrict 6Democratic1946–1979
- Bill ArcherTexasDistrict 7Republican1971–2001
- George BushTexasDistrict 7Republican1967–1971
- Lera ThomasTexasDistrict 8Democratic1965–1967
- Robert EckhardtTexasDistrict 8Democratic1967–1981
- Jack BrooksTexasDistrict 9Democratic1953–1995
- Jake PickleTexasDistrict 10Democratic1963–1995
- William ThornberryTexasDistrict 10Democratic1949–1965
- James Wright Jr.TexasDistrict 12Democratic1955–1989
- Wingate LucasTexasDistrict 12Democratic1947–1955
- Frank IkardTexasDistrict 13Democratic1951–1963
- Graham Purcell Jr.TexasDistrict 13Democratic1961–1973
- Jack HightowerTexasDistrict 13Democratic1975–1985
- Robert PriceTexasDistrict 13Republican1967–1975
- John BellTexasDistrict 14Democratic1955–1957
- John YoungTexasDistrict 14Democratic1957–1979
- Ron PaulTexasDistrict 14Republican1976–2013
- Joe KilgoreTexasDistrict 15Democratic1955–1965
- Kika De La GarzaTexasDistrict 15Democratic1965–1997
- J. RutherfordTexasDistrict 16Democratic1955–1963
- Kenneth ReganTexasDistrict 16Democratic1947–1955
- Richard WhiteTexasDistrict 16Democratic1965–1983
- Omar BurlesonTexasDistrict 17Democratic1947–1979
- Barbara JordanTexasDistrict 18Democratic1973–1979
- Ben GuillTexasDistrict 18Republican1949–1951
- Walter RogersTexasDistrict 18Democratic1951–1967
- Henry GonzálezTexasDistrict 20Democratic1961–1999
- Robert CaseyTexasDistrict 22Democratic1959–1976
- Abraham Kazen Jr.TexasDistrict 23Democratic1967–1985
- Dale MilfordTexasDistrict 24Democratic1973–1979
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