Most notable people from your congressional district.

[The Dowager Mod]

Zephram Cochrane lives in my district.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Mark Twain, writer
Elizabeth Esty, representative
John Anderson, ESPN host
Sigourney Weaver, actress

TL;DR: My district is a nothingburger

Litchfield is in your district, yes?  That gives you:

Benjamin Tallmadge
Harriett Beecher Stowe & her brother Henry Ward Beecher
Madeline L'Engle

[#gravelgang #lessiglad]

Steven Douglas, Rahm and Blago represented it, Pat Quinn and Chief Judge Wood are from it.

[Torie]

For political people, NY-19 was the home of FDR, Martin Van Buren (who practiced law in yes, you guessed it, Hudson), and Robert Livingston (a signer of the Declaration of Independence). The poet Edna Vincent Millay resided on a remote hilltop in the NE corner of Columbia County, where her devoted acolytes (cultists?) maintain the home in the exact condition it was in when she died, including the placement of each and every book in her vast library.

[nclib]

James Taylor
Dean Smith
Ben Folds

[AppleJackass]

TX-10
Eric Dickerson
Don Imus
Renee Zellweger
Andy Dalton