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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Virginia delegation →- Edward Robeson Jr.VirginiaDistrict 1Democratic1949–1959
- Thomas DowningVirginiaDistrict 1Democratic1959–1977
- George WhitehurstVirginiaDistrict 2Republican1969–1987
- Porter Hardy Jr.VirginiaDistrict 2Democratic1947–1969
- David Satterfield IIIVirginiaDistrict 3Democratic1965–1981
- Robert Daniel Jr.VirginiaDistrict 4Republican1973–1983
- Watkins AbbittVirginiaDistrict 4Democratic1947–1973
- Dan DanielVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1969–1988
- Thomas StanleyVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1946–1955
- William TuckVirginiaDistrict 5Democratic1953–1969
- Clarence BurtonVirginiaDistrict 6Democratic1947–1953
- Manley ButlerVirginiaDistrict 6Republican1971–1983
- Richard PoffVirginiaDistrict 6Republican1953–1973
- Burr HarrisonVirginiaDistrict 7Democratic1946–1963
- James RobinsonVirginiaDistrict 7Republican1971–1985
- John Marsh Jr.VirginiaDistrict 7Democratic1963–1971
- Herbert Harris IIVirginiaDistrict 8Democratic1975–1981
- Stanford ParrisVirginiaDistrict 8Republican1973–1991
- Thomas FugateVirginiaDistrict 9Democratic1949–1953
- William JenningsVirginiaDistrict 9Democratic1955–1967
- William WamplerVirginiaDistrict 9Republican1953–1983
- Joel BroyhillVirginiaDistrict 10Republican1953–1975
- Joseph FisherVirginiaDistrict 10Democratic1975–1981
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