List of former members of the U.S. House of Representatives

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

This is an incomplete list of notable former members of the United States House of Representatives.

A

• Fred George Aandahl
• Watkins Moorman Abbitt
• Amos Abbott
• Josiah Gardner Abbott
• Nehemiah Abbott
• Bella Abzug
• John Quincy Adams
• Carl Albert
• Donald Albosta
• Fisher Ames
• Arthur Andrews
• Frank Annunzio
• Leslie C. Arends
• John B. Ashe
• Thomas Ashley
• William Avery

B

• Abraham Baldwin
• Frank Ballance
• Alben W. Barkley
• Charles E. Bennett
• Egbert Benson
• Lloyd Bentsen
• Theodorick Bland
• Timothy Bloodworth
• Hale Boggs
• Edward P. Boland
• Frances Payne Bolton
• Sonny Bono
• Elias Boudinot
• Benjamin Bourne
• John C. Breckenridge
• Jack Brooks
• Overton Brooks
• Preston Brooks
• John Brown (1757-1837), Kentucky District of Virginia
• John Brown (????-1815), Maryland
• John Brown (1772-1845), Pennsylvania
• John Brown (1736-1803), Rhode Island
• John Brewer Brown (1836-1898), Maryland
• John Robert Brown (1842-1927), Virginia
• John W. Brown (1796-1875), New York
• John Young Brown (1835-1904), Kentucky
• John Young Brown (1900-1985), Kentucky
• James Buchanan
• Jim Bunning
• Aedanus Burke
• George H. W. Bush

C

• Lambert Cadwalader
• John C. Calhoun
• Clarence Cannon
• Joseph G. Cannon
• Daniel Carroll
• Emanuel Celler
• Dick Cheney
• Shirley Chisholm
• Henry Clay
• George Clymer
• Cornelius Cole
• Isaac Coles
• Schuyler Colfax
• William M. Colmer
• Barber B. Conable
• Silvio O. Conte
• Benjamin Contee
• Phil Crane
• Davy Crockett
• Charles Curtis

D

• Martin Dies Jr.
• Robert L. Doughton
• Robert Drinan

E

• Warren B. English

F

• Dante Fascell
• Millard Fillmore
• Hamilton Fish III
• Thomas Fitzsimons
• William Floyd
• Gerald Ford
• Abiel Foster
• Tillie Fowler

G

• George Gale
• James A. Garfield
• John Nance Garner
• Dick Gephardt
• Elbridge Gerry
• Henry R. Gibson
• William Branch Giles
• Nicholas Gilman
• Newt Gingrich
• Henry B. Gonzalez
• Benjamin Goodhue
• Albert Gore Sr.
• Al Gore
• Fred Grandy
• Samuel Griffin
• Martha Griffiths
• Harold R. Gross
• Jonathan Grout

H

• Sam B. Hall
• Tony Hall
• Hannibal Hamlin
• William Henry Harrison
• Thomas Hartley
• John Hathorn
• Augustus F. Hawkins
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Thomas A. Hendricks
• Daniel Hiester
• George Frisbie Hoar
• Samuel Hoar
• Clare Hoffman
• Chester E. Holifield
• Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck, 3rd woman in the House
• Claude Benton Hudspeth
• Daniel Huger
• Benjamin Huntington

I

J

• Andrew Jackson
• James Jackson
• Andrew Johnson
• Lyndon Johnson
• Richard M. Johnson
• Barbara Jordan
• Walter H. Judd

K

• Florence Kahn, first woman to serve more than 10 years (12) in Congress
• Jack Kemp
• John F. Kennedy
• William R. King
• Michael Kirwan
• Joseph R. Knowland

L

• John Laurance
• Richard Bland Lee
• William Lehman
• Mickey Leland
• George Leonard
• Abraham Lincoln
• Samuel Livermore
• Clare Boothe Luce
• Donald "Buz" Lukens

M

• Ray J. Madden
• James Madison
• Patrick Magruder
• George H. Mahon
• Vito Marcantonio
• Joseph William Martin, Jr.
• George A. Mathews
• Robert Matsui
• Paul Norton McCloskey, Jr. (Pete)
• John W. McCormack
• William McKinley
• John L. McMillan
• Schuyler Merritt
• William Edward Miller
• Wilbur Mills
• Norman Y. Mineta
• Patsy Mink
• Joe Moakley
• Andrew Moore
• Levi P. Morton
• Frederick Muhlenberg
• John Peter Muhlenberg

N

• Richard Nixon
• Mae Nolan, 4th woman in the House
• Mary Teresa Norton, first woman to serve more than 20 years (26) in Congress

O

• Alvin O'Konski
• Tip O'Neill

P

• John Page
• Josiah Parker
• George Partridge
• Wright Patman
• Franklin Pierce
• William R. Poage
• James Knox Polk
• Adam Clayton Powell
• Melvin Price

Q

• Dan Quayle
• James H. Quillen

R

• Jeannette Rankin, first woman in Congress
• Joseph E. Ransdell
• Sam Rayburn
• John Rea
• Mel Reynolds
• John J. Rhodes
• Alice Mary Robertson, 2nd woman in Congress
• Peter Wallace Rodino
• Edith Nourse Rogers, longest-serving woman in Congress
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
• Dan Rostenkowski
• Donald Rumsfeld

S

• Adolph J. Sabath
• Gus Savage
• James Schureman
• Thomas Scott
• Theodore Sedgwick
• Joshua Seney
• John Sevier
• James S. Sherman
• Roger Sherman
• Daniel E. Sickles
• Peter Silvester
• Thomas Sinnickson
• Norman Sisisky
• Clyde Smith
• Howard Worth Smith
• Margaret Chase Smith
• William Smith
• William Loughton Smith
• John Steele
• Alexander Stephens
• Thaddeus Stevens
• Adlai E. Stevenson
• Michael Jenifer Stone
• Bob Stump
• Jonathan Sturges
• Thomas Sumter

T

• George Thatcher
• Maurice H. Thatcher
• John Q. Tilson
• Daniel D. Tompkins
• James A. Traficant Jr. (1985-2002), Ohio
• Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.
• Thomas T. Tucker
• John Tyler

U

• Morris K. Udall

V

• Jeremiah Van Renssellaer
• Charles Vanik
• Bruce Vento
• John Vining
• Carl Vinson
• Andrew Volstead

W

• Jeremiah Wadsworth
• William A. Wheeler
• Alexander White
• Jamie L. Whitten
• John Bell Williams
• Hugh Williamson
• Henry Wynkoop

X

Y

• Sidney R. Yates
• Andrew Young

Z

• Clement J. Zablocki

See also

• List of former members of the U.S. Senate
• List of members of the U.S. House of Representatives

External links

• http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp - Congressional Biographical Directory