How many House Members were born in the state they represent?

Mary Peltola represented Alaska in the House from August 2022 until January 2025. She also happened to have been born in Alaska. This is notable because she was the first person to ever represent Alaska in the House who was born there. That even includes the period of time (1906-1959) when Alaska was a territory and had a non-voting delegate instead of an actual representative. Eight delegates and five Representatives preceded here, none of whom were born in the state.1 That's certainly unusual. But it got me wondering about other states. So I asked Claude for help. In about 30 minutes, Claude and I were able to produce results based on the 96% of all Representatives/Delegates in U.S. history who have complete information on place of birth in easily accessible datasets.2 As it turns out, for all of American history, 58.3% of people who have served in the House were born in the state they represented, and 62.9% of all seat-terms in the House were filled by people born in the state they…