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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Rhode Island delegation →- Benjamin BourneRhode IslandAt-LargeFederalist1789–1797
- Dutee PearceRhode IslandAt-LargeAnti Masonic1825–1837
- Elisha PotterRhode IslandAt-LargeFederalist1795–1815
- Isaac WilbourRhode IslandAt-LargeRepublican1807–1809
- James MasonRhode IslandAt-LargeFederalist1815–1819
- Job DurfeeRhode IslandAt-Large1821–1825
- John Boss Jr.Rhode IslandAt-LargeFederalist1815–1819
- John BrownRhode IslandAt-LargeFederalist1799–1801
- Joseph TillinghastRhode IslandAt-LargeWhig1837–1843
- Nathaniel HazardRhode IslandAt-LargeRepublican1819–1821
- Nehemiah KnightRhode IslandAt-LargeRepublican1803–1809
- Richard Jackson Jr.Rhode IslandAt-LargeFederalist1807–1815
- Samuel EddyRhode IslandAt-Large1819–1825
- Thomas TillinghastRhode IslandAt-LargeRepublican1797–1803
- Tristam BurgesRhode IslandAt-LargeAnti Jacksonian1825–1835
- Aime ForandRhode IslandDistrict 1Democratic1937–1961
- Benjamin EamesRhode IslandDistrict 1Republican1871–1879
- Charles RiskRhode IslandDistrict 1Republican1935–1941
- Christopher RobinsonRhode IslandDistrict 1Republican1859–1861
- Clark BurdickRhode IslandDistrict 1Republican1919–1933
- Daniel GrangerRhode IslandDistrict 1Democratic1903–1909
- David CicillineRhode IslandDistrict 1Democratic2011–2023
- Fernand St. GermainRhode IslandDistrict 1Democratic1961–1989
- Francis CondonRhode IslandDistrict 1Democratic1929–1937
- George KingRhode IslandDistrict 1Whig1849–1853
- George O’ShaunessyRhode IslandDistrict 1Democratic1911–1919
- Henry CranstonRhode IslandDistrict 1Whig1843–1847
- Henry SpoonerRhode IslandDistrict 1Republican1881–1891
- Melville BullRhode IslandDistrict 1Republican1895–1903
- Nathaniel DurfeeRhode IslandDistrict 1Republican1855–1859
- Oscar LaphamRhode IslandDistrict 1Democratic1891–1895
- Patrick KennedyRhode IslandDistrict 1Democratic1995–2011
- Robert CranstonRhode IslandDistrict 1Whig1837–1849
- Ronald MachtleyRhode IslandDistrict 1Republican1989–1995
- Thomas DavisRhode IslandDistrict 1Democratic1853–1855
- Thomas JenckesRhode IslandDistrict 1Republican1863–1871
- William SheffieldRhode IslandDistrict 1Republican1909–1911
- Adin CapronRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1897–1911
- Benjamin ThurstonRhode IslandDistrict 2American1847–1857
- Charles PageRhode IslandDistrict 2Democratic1885–1895
- Claudine SchneiderRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1981–1991
- Edward BeardRhode IslandDistrict 2Democratic1975–1981
- Elisha PotterRhode IslandDistrict 2Law and Order1843–1845
- George BrowneRhode IslandDistrict 2Unionist1861–1863
- George UtterRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1911–1913
- Harry SandagerRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1939–1941
- James PendletonRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1871–1875
- Jim LangevinRhode IslandDistrict 2Democratic2001–2023
- John FogartyRhode IslandDistrict 2Democratic1941–1969
- John O’ConnellRhode IslandDistrict 2Democratic1933–1939
- Latimer BallouRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1875–1881
- Lemuel ArnoldRhode IslandDistrict 2Whig1845–1847
- Nathan DixonRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1849–1871
- Richard AldrichRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1923–1933
- Robert TiernanRhode IslandDistrict 2Democratic1967–1975
- Robert WeygandRhode IslandDistrict 2Democratic1997–2001
- Walter StinessRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1915–1923
- Warren ArnoldRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1887–1897
- William BraytonRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1857–1861
- William PirceRhode IslandDistrict 2Republican1885–1887
- Ambrose KennedyRhode IslandDistrict 3Republican1913–1923
- Jeremiah O’ConnellRhode IslandDistrict 3Democratic1923–1931
- Louis MonastRhode IslandDistrict 3Republican1927–1929
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