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.
Kentucky100
Kentucky delegation →- Albert TalbottKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1855–1859
- Alexander MontgomeryKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1887–1895
- Aylette BucknerKentuckyDistrict 4Whig1847–1849
- Ben JohnsonKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1907–1927
- Bryan OwsleyKentuckyDistrict 4Whig1841–1843
- Cap CardenKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1931–1937
- Chester CarrierKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1943–1945
- David SmithKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1897–1907
- Edward CrealKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1935–1945
- Frank ChelfKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1945–1967
- Geoff DavisKentuckyDistrict 4Republican2005–2012
- George CaldwellKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1843–1851
- Henry MoormanKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1927–1929
- James ChrismanKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1853–1855
- James KnottKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1867–1883
- John CraddockKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1929–1931
- John LewisKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1895–1897
- Joseph DeshaKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1807–1819
- Joshua BellKentuckyDistrict 4Whig1845–1847
- Ken LucasKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1999–2005
- Marion SnyderKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1963–1987
- Martin BeatyKentuckyDistrict 4Anti Jackson1833–1835
- Sherrod WilliamsKentuckyDistrict 4Whig1835–1841
- Thomas RobertsonKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1883–1887
- Thomas SandfordKentuckyDistrict 4Republican1803–1807
- William AndersonKentuckyDistrict 4Ind. Republican-Democrat1859–1861
- William ReadKentuckyDistrict 4Democratic1871–1875
- William WardKentuckyDistrict 4Whig1851–1853
- Albert WillisKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1877–1887
- Alney McLeanKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1815–1821
- Anthony NewKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1793–1823
- Asa GroverKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1867–1869
- Asher CaruthKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1887–1895
- Benjamin HowardKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1807–1811
- Boyd WinchesterKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1869–1873
- Brent SpenceKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1931–1963
- Bryan YoungKentuckyDistrict 5Whig1845–1847
- Charles OgdenKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1919–1923
- Charles WickliffeKentuckyDistrict 5Unionist1823–1863
- Clement HillKentuckyDistrict 5Whig1853–1855
- Edward ParsonsKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1875–1877
- Elisha StandifordKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1873–1875
- Eugene SilerKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1955–1965
- Harvey IrwinKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1901–1903
- Henry WattersonKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1875–1877
- James HarlanKentuckyDistrict 5Whig1835–1839
- James JohnsonKentuckyDistrict 5Jackson1825–1827
- James StoneKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1843–1853
- John FowlerKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1797–1807
- John JohnsonKentuckyDistrict 51821–1825
- Joseph SherleyKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1903–1919
- Joshua JewettKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1855–1859
- Lovell RousseauKentuckyDistrict 5Unconditional Unionist1865–1867
- Maurice ThatcherKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1923–1933
- Oscar TurnerKentuckyDistrict 5Democratic1899–1901
- Robert LetcherKentuckyDistrict 51823–1835
- Robert MalloryKentuckyDistrict 5Unionist1859–1865
- Robert McHattonKentuckyDistrict 5Jackson1825–1829
- Samuel HopkinsKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1813–1815
- Simeon AndersonKentuckyDistrict 5Whig1839–1841
- Tim CarterKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1965–1981
- Walter EvansKentuckyDistrict 5Republican1895–1899
- Addison WhiteKentuckyDistrict 6Whig1851–1853
- Albert BerryKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1893–1901
- Andrew WardKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1865–1867
- Arthur RouseKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1911–1927
- Ben ChandlerKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic2004–2013
- Daniel BreckKentuckyDistrict 6Whig1849–1851
- Daniel GoochKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1901–1905
- David WalkerKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1817–1821
- David WhiteKentuckyDistrict 61823–1825
- Ernie FletcherKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1999–2003
- George BedingerKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1803–1807
- George DunlapKentuckyDistrict 6Unionist1861–1863
- Green AdamsKentuckyDistrict 6Ind. Republican-Democrat1847–1861
- Green SmithKentuckyDistrict 6Unconditional Unionist1863–1867
- John BreckinridgeKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1973–1979
- John CalhoonKentuckyDistrict 6Whig1827–1839
- John ElliottKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1853–1859
- John MartinKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1845–1847
- John WattsKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1951–1973
- John WhiteKentuckyDistrict 6Whig1835–1845
- Joseph LecompteKentuckyDistrict 6Jackson1825–1833
- Joseph RhinockKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1905–1911
- Judson NewhallKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1929–1931
- Larry HopkinsKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1979–1993
- Orie WareKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1927–1929
- Scotty BaeslerKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1993–1999
- Solomon SharpKentuckyDistrict 6Republican1813–1817
- Thomas ChiltonKentuckyDistrict 6Anti Jacksonian1827–1835
- Thomas JonesKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1867–1877
- W. DickersonKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1889–1893
- William ArthurKentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1871–1875
- William Curlin Jr.KentuckyDistrict 6Democratic1971–1973
- Andrew MayKentuckyDistrict 7Democratic1931–1947
- Benjamin HardinKentuckyDistrict 7Whig1815–1837
- Brutus ClayKentuckyDistrict 7Unionist1863–1865
- Carl PerkinsKentuckyDistrict 7Democratic1949–1985
- Carl PerkinsKentuckyDistrict 7Democratic1983–1993
- Evan SettleKentuckyDistrict 7Democratic1897–1901
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