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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Wisconsin delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeGerald FlynnWisconsin · District 1Democratic1959–1961
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry SchadebergWisconsin · District 1Republican1961–1971
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLeslie AspinWisconsin · District 1Democratic1971–1993
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLynn StalbaumWisconsin · District 1Democratic1965–1967
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDonald TewesWisconsin · District 2Republican1957–1959
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert KastenmeierWisconsin · District 2Democratic1959–1991
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlvin BaldusWisconsin · District 3Democratic1975–1981
- Former U.S. RepresentativeVernon ThomsonWisconsin · District 3Republican1961–1975
- Former U.S. RepresentativeClement ZablockiWisconsin · District 4Democratic1949–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn BrophyWisconsin · District 4Republican1947–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles KerstenWisconsin · District 5Republican1947–1955
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry ReussWisconsin · District 5Democratic1955–1983
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn RaceWisconsin · District 6Democratic1965–1967
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam SteigerWisconsin · District 6Republican1967–1979
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam Van PeltWisconsin · District 6Republican1951–1965
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDave ObeyWisconsin · District 7Democratic1969–2011
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMelvin LairdWisconsin · District 7Republican1953–1971
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarold FroehlichWisconsin · District 8Republican1973–1975
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert CornellWisconsin · District 8Democratic1975–1979
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGlenn DavisWisconsin · District 9Republican1947–1975
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLester JohnsonWisconsin · District 9Democratic1953–1965
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