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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California delegation →- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry OsborneCalifornia · At-LargeRepublican1917–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeClarence LeaCalifornia · District 1Democratic1917–1949
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFrank CoombsCalifornia · District 1Republican1901–1903
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames GillettCalifornia · District 1Republican1903–1907
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam EnglebrightCalifornia · District 1Republican1905–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam KentCalifornia · District 1Independent1911–1917
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDuncan McKinlayCalifornia · District 2Republican1905–1911
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHarry EnglebrightCalifornia · District 2Republican1925–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn RakerCalifornia · District 2Democratic1911–1927
- Former U.S. RepresentativeTheodore BellCalifornia · District 2Democratic1903–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles CurryCalifornia · District 3Republican1913–1931
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles Curry Jr.California · District 3Republican1931–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEdward LivernashCalifornia · District 4Democratic1903–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeFlorence KahnCalifornia · District 4Republican1925–1937
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn NolanCalifornia · District 5Republican1913–1923
- Former U.S. RepresentativeLawrence FlahertyCalifornia · District 5Republican1925–1927
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMae NolanCalifornia · District 5Republican1921–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeRichard WelchCalifornia · District 5Republican1925–1951
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam WynnCalifornia · District 5Democratic1903–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeAlbert CarterCalifornia · District 6Republican1925–1945
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJames MacLaffertyCalifornia · District 6Republican1921–1925
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn ElstonCalifornia · District 6Republican1915–1923
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoseph KnowlandCalifornia · District 6Republican1903–1915
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry BarbourCalifornia · District 7Republican1919–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeArthur FreeCalifornia · District 8Republican1921–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeEveris HayesCalifornia · District 8Republican1905–1919
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHugh HersmanCalifornia · District 8Democratic1919–1921
- Former U.S. RepresentativeMilton DanielsCalifornia · District 8Republican1903–1905
- Former U.S. RepresentativeSylvester SmithCalifornia · District 8Republican1905–1913
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles BellCalifornia · District 9Republican1913–1915
- Former U.S. RepresentativeCharles RandallCalifornia · District 9Prohibitionist1915–1921
- Former U.S. RepresentativeDenver ChurchCalifornia · District 9Democratic1913–1935
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWalter LinebergerCalifornia · District 9Republican1921–1927
- Former U.S. RepresentativeHenry BenedictCalifornia · District 10Republican1915–1917
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJoe CrailCalifornia · District 10Republican1927–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeJohn FredericksCalifornia · District 10Republican1923–1927
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam StephensCalifornia · District 10Progressive1911–1917
- Former U.S. RepresentativePhilip SwingCalifornia · District 11Republican1921–1933
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam EvansCalifornia · District 11Republican1927–1935
- Former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam KettnerCalifornia · District 11Democratic1913–1921
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