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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West Virginia delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrank BowmanWest Virginia · At-LargeRepublican1925–1935
- Former U.S. RepresentativeBenjamin RosenbloomWest Virginia · District 1Republican1921–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCarl BachmannWest Virginia · District 1Republican1925–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam HubbardWest Virginia · District 1Republican1907–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge BowersWest Virginia · District 2Republican1915–1923
- Former U.S. RepresentativeGeorge SturgissWest Virginia · District 2Republican1907–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn WolvertonWest Virginia · District 3Republican1925–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph GainesWest Virginia · District 3Republican1901–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSamuel AvisWest Virginia · District 3Republican1913–1915
- Former U.S. RepresentativeStuart ReedWest Virginia · District 3Republican1917–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarry WoodyardWest Virginia · District 4Republican1903–1927
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHunter Moss Jr.West Virginia · District 4Republican1913–1917
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames HughesWest Virginia · District 4Republican1901–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRobert HoggWest Virginia · District 4Republican1929–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward CooperWest Virginia · District 5Republican1915–1919
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames StrotherWest Virginia · District 5Republican1925–1929
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWells GoodykoontzWest Virginia · District 5Republican1919–1923
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward EnglandWest Virginia · District 6Republican1927–1929
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLeonard EcholsWest Virginia · District 6Republican1919–1923
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