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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Tennessee delegation →- Brazilla ReeceTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1921–1963
- Oscar LovetteTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1931–1933
- Sam SellsTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1911–1921
- Zachary MasseyTennesseeDistrict 1Republican1909–1911
- James TaylorTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1919–1941
- Nathan HaleTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1905–1909
- Richard AustinTennesseeDistrict 2Republican1909–1919
- Joseph BrownTennesseeDistrict 3Republican1921–1923
- Samuel McReynoldsTennesseeDistrict 3Democratic1923–1941
- John MitchellTennesseeDistrict 4Democratic1931–1939
- Morgan FitzpatrickTennesseeDistrict 4Democratic1903–1905
- Mounce ButlerTennesseeDistrict 4Democratic1905–1907
- Wynne ClouseTennesseeDistrict 4Republican1921–1923
- Ewin DavisTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1919–1933
- Joseph ByrnsTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1909–1937
- William HoustonTennesseeDistrict 5Democratic1905–1919
- Clarence TurnerTennesseeDistrict 6Democratic1921–1941
- Edward EslickTennesseeDistrict 7Democratic1925–1933
- Gordon BrowningTennesseeDistrict 7Democratic1923–1935
- Lemuel PadgettTennesseeDistrict 7Democratic1901–1923
- Willa EslickTennesseeDistrict 7Democratic1931–1933
- William SalmonTennesseeDistrict 7Democratic1923–1925
- Jere CooperTennesseeDistrict 8Democratic1929–1959
- Lon ScottTennesseeDistrict 8Republican1921–1923
- Edward CrumpTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1931–1935
- Finis GarrettTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1905–1929
- George GordonTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1907–1913
- Hubert FisherTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1917–1931
- Malcolm PattersonTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1901–1907
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