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 →- Washington BarrowTennesseeDistrict 8Whig1847–1849
- William SmithTennesseeDistrict 8Republican1869–1871
- William VaughanTennesseeDistrict 8Democratic1871–1873
- Adam AlexanderTennesseeDistrict 9Jackson1823–1827
- Barbour LewisTennesseeDistrict 9Republican1873–1875
- Cave JohnsonTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1829–1845
- Charles SimontonTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1879–1883
- Clifford DavisTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1939–1965
- Clift ChandlerTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1935–1941
- Edward CrumpTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1931–1935
- Emerson EtheridgeTennesseeDistrict 9Ind. Republican-Democrat1853–1861
- Finis GarrettTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1905–1929
- George GriderTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1965–1967
- Harold FordTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1975–1997
- Harold Ford Jr.TennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1997–2007
- Harvey WattersonTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1839–1843
- James McDearmonTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1893–1897
- James PolkTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1825–1839
- Lucien ChaseTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1845–1849
- Presley GlassTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1885–1889
- Rice PierceTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1883–1905
- William CaldwellTennesseeDistrict 9Democratic1875–1879
- William FitzgeraldTennesseeDistrict 9Jackson1831–1833
- Ebenezer ShieldsTennesseeDistrict 10Whig1835–1839
- Frederick StantonTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1845–1855
- George GordonTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1907–1913
- Hiram YoungTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1875–1885
- Hubert FisherTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1917–1931
- James PhelanTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1887–1891
- John AsheTennesseeDistrict 10Whig1843–1845
- Josiah PattersonTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1891–1897
- Malcolm PattersonTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1901–1907
- Thomas RiversTennesseeDistrict 10American1855–1857
- William AveryTennesseeDistrict 10Democratic1857–1861
- William IngeTennesseeDistrict 10Jackson1833–1835
- William MooreTennesseeDistrict 10Republican1881–1883
- Zachary TaylorTennesseeDistrict 10Republican1885–1887
- Christopher WilliamsTennesseeDistrict 11Whig1837–1853
- Milton BrownTennesseeDistrict 11Whig1841–1847
- Richard CheathamTennesseeDistrict 11Whig1837–1839
- William HaskellTennesseeDistrict 11Whig1847–1849
- Adam HuntsmanTennesseeDistrict 12Jackson1835–1837
- David CrockettTennesseeDistrict 12Anti Jacksonian1827–1835
- John CrockettTennesseeDistrict 12Whig1837–1841
- William DunlapTennesseeDistrict 13Jackson1833–1837
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