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Only two Native Americans served in the 115th Congress: Tom Cole (serving since 2003) and Markwayne Mullin (served from 2013 until 2023), both of whom are Republican Representatives from Oklahoma. On November 6, 2018, Democrats Sharice Davids of Kansas and Deb Haaland of New Mexico were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and the ...
This is a list of Native American politicians in the United States. These are Native Americans who served in the federal, state, or municipal governments. Native American identity is a complex and contested issue. The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry.
This page lists Native American members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Also see List of Native Americans in the United States Congress and List of Native American politicians.
The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. This list includes all senators serving in the 119th United States Congress . Party affiliation
Mullin is the first Native American U.S. senator since Ben Nighthorse Campbell retired in 2005. [1] He is also the second Cherokee Nation citizen elected to the Senate; the first, Robert Latham Owen, retired in 1925. [2] Before being elected to the Senate, Mullin served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district from ...
Members of the United States Congress of Indian descent (9 P) Pages in category "American politicians of Indian descent" The following 154 pages are in this category, out of 154 total.
U.S. senators want five institutions, including Harvard and UC Berkeley, to explain why they hold thousands of Native American remains and belongings.
Since 1957, 41 Asian Americans have been elected as U.S. Representatives and 9 as U.S. Senators. Hawaii was the first of four states to send an Asian American to the Senate (1959) and Illinois is the most recent state to elect a senator of similar descent for the first time (2016).