An explanation and historical overview of congressional apportionments in the United States.

Thomas Corwin, also known as Tom Corwin and The Wagon Boy was a politician from the state of Ohio who served as a prosecuting attorney, a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, United States House of Representatives, and United...

Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 - January 11, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as governor.

Richard Yates (January 18, 1818 - November 27, 1873) was governor of Illinois during the American Civil War and has been considered the greatest war governor during that period. When the war began Gov. Yates sent more Illinois troops to...

(1835-1910) US representative, Speaker of the House of Representatives, senator Kentucky, and cabinet officer

A United States politician and member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Iowa as a member of the Greenback Party.

Schuyler (pronounced "Sky-ler") Colfax, Jr. (March 23, 1823 - January 13, 1885) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the seventeenth Vice President of the United States.

(1830-1893) US representative, Speaker of the House of Representatives, senator from Maine, and secretary of state.

A portrait of Henry Clay. He was the American statesman and orator. He ran for president several times but was unsuccessful. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Secretary of State, Representative, , US Senator from Kentucky.

He was an American political figure. A Southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He also served as a Secretary of Treasury under President...

James Gillespie Blaine was a U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time United States Secretary of State, and champion of the Half-Breeds.

An American politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota as a Republican and from New York as a Democrat. Towne also served in the United States Senate from Minnosota as a Democrat.

(1736-1802) Soldier in Revolutionary war. Later served in the House of representatives.

U.S. House of Representatives member.

Henry Warner Slocum (September 24, 1827 - April 14, 1894), was a Union general during the American Civil War and later served in the United States House of Representatives from New York.

(1830-1983) An American statesman, legislator of Maine, member of the House of Representatives of the National Congress, Speaker of the House, member of the Senate, and Secretary of State.

This biographical site includes a link to a United States House of Representatives resolution recognizing Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the telephone. It also includes information on Bell's (1847-1922 CE) later scientific work.

A nice biography of the delegate to the Constitutional Convention from Georgia who later served both in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

(1804-1869) Fourteenth President of the United States and a member in the House of Representatives and Senate.

Lawyer and member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

(1777-1852) An American statesman who served in both the House of Representatives and Senate and is considered one of the five greatest Senators in American history.

Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 - August 2, 1859) was an American education reformer, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican) from 1848 to 1853.

(1825-1908) Served as a member of the US House of Representatives and the Confederate Congress from Tennessee

This is an illustration of John Quincy Adams in the House of Representatives.