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 →- Gerald FlynnWisconsinDistrict 1Democratic1959–1961
- Henry SchadebergWisconsinDistrict 1Republican1961–1971
- Leslie AspinWisconsinDistrict 1Democratic1971–1993
- Lynn StalbaumWisconsinDistrict 1Democratic1965–1967
- Donald TewesWisconsinDistrict 2Republican1957–1959
- Robert KastenmeierWisconsinDistrict 2Democratic1959–1991
- Alvin BaldusWisconsinDistrict 3Democratic1975–1981
- Vernon ThomsonWisconsinDistrict 3Republican1961–1975
- Clement ZablockiWisconsinDistrict 4Democratic1949–1983
- John BrophyWisconsinDistrict 4Republican1947–1949
- Charles KerstenWisconsinDistrict 5Republican1947–1955
- Henry ReussWisconsinDistrict 5Democratic1955–1983
- John RaceWisconsinDistrict 6Democratic1965–1967
- William SteigerWisconsinDistrict 6Republican1967–1979
- William Van PeltWisconsinDistrict 6Republican1951–1965
- Dave ObeyWisconsinDistrict 7Democratic1969–2011
- Melvin LairdWisconsinDistrict 7Republican1953–1971
- Harold FroehlichWisconsinDistrict 8Republican1973–1975
- Robert CornellWisconsinDistrict 8Democratic1975–1979
- Glenn DavisWisconsinDistrict 9Republican1947–1975
- Lester JohnsonWisconsinDistrict 9Democratic1953–1965
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