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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Illinois delegation →- Sidney SimpsonIllinoisDistrict 20Republican1943–1959
- Ben CaldwellIllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1899–1909
- Charles PriceIllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1945–1988
- Everett MurphyIllinoisDistrict 21Republican1895–1897
- Frank FriesIllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1937–1941
- Frank RameyIllinoisDistrict 21Republican1929–1931
- Frederick KernIllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1901–1903
- George HowellIllinoisDistrict 21Republican1941–1949
- Harry MasonIllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1935–1937
- James GrahamIllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1909–1915
- James MajorIllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1923–1935
- Jehu BakerIllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1865–1899
- Loren WheelerIllinoisDistrict 21Republican1915–1927
- Peter Mack Jr.IllinoisDistrict 21Democratic1949–1963
- Zeno RivesIllinoisDistrict 21Republican1905–1907
- Calvin JohnsonIllinoisDistrict 22Republican1943–1945
- Charles KarchIllinoisDistrict 22Democratic1931–1933
- Edward IrwinIllinoisDistrict 22Republican1925–1931
- Edward MillerIllinoisDistrict 22Republican1923–1925
- Edwin SchaeferIllinoisDistrict 22Democratic1933–1943
- George ShipleyIllinoisDistrict 22Democratic1959–1979
- Kenneth GrayIllinoisDistrict 22Democratic1955–1989
- Rolla McMillenIllinoisDistrict 22Republican1943–1951
- William BaltzIllinoisDistrict 22Democratic1913–1915
- William RodenbergIllinoisDistrict 22Republican1899–1923
- William SpringerIllinoisDistrict 22Republican1951–1973
- Charles VursellIllinoisDistrict 23Republican1943–1959
- Edward JenisonIllinoisDistrict 23Republican1947–1953
- Edwin BrooksIllinoisDistrict 23Republican1919–1923
- Frank DicksonIllinoisDistrict 23Republican1905–1907
- Joseph CrowleyIllinoisDistrict 23Democratic1899–1905
- Laurence ArnoldIllinoisDistrict 23Democratic1937–1943
- Martin FosterIllinoisDistrict 23Democratic1907–1919
- William ArnoldIllinoisDistrict 23Democratic1923–1937
- Claude ParsonsIllinoisDistrict 24Democratic1929–1941
- Hiram FowlerIllinoisDistrict 24Democratic1911–1915
- James HeidingerIllinoisDistrict 24Republican1941–1947
- James WilliamsIllinoisDistrict 24Democratic1889–1905
- Pleasant ChapmanIllinoisDistrict 24Republican1905–1911
- Roy ClippingerIllinoisDistrict 24Republican1945–1949
- Thomas WilliamsIllinoisDistrict 24Republican1915–1931
- Edward DenisonIllinoisDistrict 25Republican1915–1931
- George SmithIllinoisDistrict 25Republican1889–1909
- Kent KellerIllinoisDistrict 25Democratic1931–1941
- Napoleon ThistlewoodIllinoisDistrict 25Republican1907–1913
- Runt BishopIllinoisDistrict 25Republican1941–1955
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