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 →- Henry OsborneCaliforniaAt-LargeRepublican1917–1925
- Clarence LeaCaliforniaDistrict 1Democratic1917–1949
- Frank CoombsCaliforniaDistrict 1Republican1901–1903
- James GillettCaliforniaDistrict 1Republican1903–1907
- William EnglebrightCaliforniaDistrict 1Republican1905–1911
- William KentCaliforniaDistrict 1Independent1911–1917
- Duncan McKinlayCaliforniaDistrict 2Republican1905–1911
- Harry EnglebrightCaliforniaDistrict 2Republican1925–1945
- John RakerCaliforniaDistrict 2Democratic1911–1927
- Theodore BellCaliforniaDistrict 2Democratic1903–1905
- Charles CurryCaliforniaDistrict 3Republican1913–1931
- Charles Curry Jr.CaliforniaDistrict 3Republican1931–1933
- Edward LivernashCaliforniaDistrict 4Democratic1903–1905
- Florence KahnCaliforniaDistrict 4Republican1925–1937
- John NolanCaliforniaDistrict 5Republican1913–1923
- Lawrence FlahertyCaliforniaDistrict 5Republican1925–1927
- Mae NolanCaliforniaDistrict 5Republican1921–1925
- Richard WelchCaliforniaDistrict 5Republican1925–1951
- William WynnCaliforniaDistrict 5Democratic1903–1905
- Albert CarterCaliforniaDistrict 6Republican1925–1945
- James MacLaffertyCaliforniaDistrict 6Republican1921–1925
- John ElstonCaliforniaDistrict 6Republican1915–1923
- Joseph KnowlandCaliforniaDistrict 6Republican1903–1915
- Henry BarbourCaliforniaDistrict 7Republican1919–1933
- Arthur FreeCaliforniaDistrict 8Republican1921–1933
- Everis HayesCaliforniaDistrict 8Republican1905–1919
- Hugh HersmanCaliforniaDistrict 8Democratic1919–1921
- Milton DanielsCaliforniaDistrict 8Republican1903–1905
- Sylvester SmithCaliforniaDistrict 8Republican1905–1913
- Charles BellCaliforniaDistrict 9Republican1913–1915
- Charles RandallCaliforniaDistrict 9Prohibitionist1915–1921
- Denver ChurchCaliforniaDistrict 9Democratic1913–1935
- Walter LinebergerCaliforniaDistrict 9Republican1921–1927
- Henry BenedictCaliforniaDistrict 10Republican1915–1917
- Joe CrailCaliforniaDistrict 10Republican1927–1933
- John FredericksCaliforniaDistrict 10Republican1923–1927
- William StephensCaliforniaDistrict 10Progressive1911–1917
- Philip SwingCaliforniaDistrict 11Republican1921–1933
- William EvansCaliforniaDistrict 11Republican1927–1935
- William KettnerCaliforniaDistrict 11Democratic1913–1921
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