REPRESENTATIV

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REPRESENTATIVE. One who represents or is in the place of another.
       2. In legislation, it signifies one who has been elected a member of 
  that branch of the legislature called the house of representatives. 
       3. A representative of a deceased person, sometimes called a "personal 
  representative," or legal personal representative," is one who is executor 
  or administrator of the person described. 6 Madd. 159; 5 yes. 402.