List of Native Americans in the United States Congress

This is a list of Native Americans in the U.S. Congress.

Senate

Senator	Tribal Ancestry	State	Party	Term	Reason for leaving
Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827-1901) ^[1]	Lumbee	Mississippi	Republican	1869–1871	Resigned to become first president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College
Matthew Quay (1833-1904)	Abenaki or Lenape	Pennsylvania	Republican	1887–1899, 1901–1904	Died in office
Robert Latham Owen (1856-1947)	Cherokee	Oklahoma	Democratic	1907–1925	Died in office
Charles Curtis (1860-1936)	Kaw, Osage, and Potawatomi	Kansas	Republican	1915–1929 1907–1913	Resigned after being elected Vice President of the United States
Paul O. Husting (1866-1917)	Métis people (United States)	Wisconsin	Democratic	1915–1917	Died in office
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (b. 1933)	Northern Cheyenne	Colorado	Republican	1993–2005	Elected as a Democrat. Retired

House of Representatives

Representative	Tribal Ancestry	State	Party	Term	Reason for leaving
John Floyd (1783-1837)	Powhatan	Virginia	Democratic-Republican	1817–1829	Retired
Charles Curtis (1860-1936)	Kaw, Osage, and Potawatomi	Kansas	Republican	1893–1907	Retired to successfully run for the United States Senate in 1906
Charles D. Carter (1868-1929)	Chickasaw	Oklahoma	Democratic	1907–1927	Lost renomination
William Wirt Hastings (1866-1938)	Cherokee	Oklahoma	Democratic	1915–1921 1923–1935	Defeated & Retired
Will Rogers, Jr. (1911-1993)	Cherokee	California	Democratic	1943–1944	Resigned to join the United States Army
William G. Stigler (1891-1952)	Choctaw	Oklahoma	Democratic	1944–1952	Died in office
Ben Reifel (1906-1990)	Rosebud Sioux	South Dakota	Republican	1961–1971	Retired
Floyd Hicks (1915-1992)	Paiute and Shoshone	Washington	Democratic	1965–1977	Retired
Clem McSpadden (1925-2008)	Cherokee	Oklahoma	Democratic	1973–1975	Retired to unsuccessfully run for Governor of Oklahoma in 1974
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (b. 1933)	Northern Cheyenne	Colorado	Democratic	1987–1993	Retired to successfully run for the United States Senate in 1992
Brad Carson (b. 1967)	Cherokee	Oklahoma	Democratic	2001–2005	Retired to unsuccessfully run for the United States Senate in 2004
Tom Cole (b. 1949)	Chickasaw	Oklahoma	Republican	2003–present
Travis Childers (b. 1958)	Chickasaw and Choctaw	Mississippi	Democratic	2008–2011	Lost reelection
Markwayne Mullin (b. 1977)	Cherokee	Oklahoma	Republican	2013–present

Notes

↑ for the predecessors and successors of each Native American Representative's/Delegate's district or Senator with their date of birth and death, click on the U.S. representative/delegate or senator, for the number of congresses, click on the congress.

Sources

Stubben,Jerry D.(2006). "". Native Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook"

United States Congress

Members and leaders

Members

Current	By length of service Freshmen Youngest members Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico Delegates Longest-serving members ever

Senate	Current by seniority by age Dean of the Senate Former senators Living Earliest serving Earliest living Expelled or censured Classes Born outside the U.S.

House	Current by seniority Dean of the House Former representatives Living Oldest living Earliest serving Expelled, censured, and reprimanded Deaths by year

Leaders

Senate	President (list) President pro tempore Majority and minority leaders Assistant party leaders Democratic Caucus (Chair Secretary Policy Committee Chair) Republican Conference (Chair Vice-Chair Policy Committee Chair)

House	Speaker Leaders Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group Democratic Caucus Republican Conference

Districts

Caucuses,
women and
minorities

Offices, employees, services, and the Capitol Complex

Legislative
offices

Offices

Senate	Curator Historical Library

House	Congressional Ethics Emergency Planning, Preparedness, and Operations Interparliamentary Affairs Law Revision Counsel Library

Employees

Senate	Secretary Chaplain Curator Historian Librarian Pages Parliamentarian Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper

House	Chaplain Chief Administrative Officer Clerk Doorkeeper Floor Operations Floor Services Chief Historian Pages (Page Board) Parliamentarian Postmaster Reading Clerk Sergeant at Arms

Library of
Congress

Government
Publishing Office

Capitol

Office
buildings

Senate	Dirksen Hart Russell

House	Building Commission Cannon Ford Longworth O'Neill Rayburn

Other
facilities

Powers, privileges, procedure, committees, history, and media

Powers	Article I Copyright Commerce (Dormant) Contempt of Congress Declaration of war Impeachment Naturalization "Necessary and Proper" Power of enforcement Taxing/spending

Privileges and benefits	Salaries Franking Immunity

Procedure	Act of Congress (list) Appropriation bill Budget resolution Closed sessions (House) Closed sessions (Senate) Cloture Concurrent resolution Continuing resolution Dear colleague letter Discharge petition Engrossed bill Enrolled bill Expulsion Joint resolution Joint session (list) Lame-duck session Majority of the majority (Hastert Rule) Multiple referral Procedures (House) Reconciliation Rider Saxbe fix Sponsorship Suspension of the rules Unanimous consent Veto Line-item veto Pocket veto Veto override

Senate-specific	Advice and consent Classes Executive communication Executive session Filibuster Jefferson's Manual Journal Nuclear option Presiding Officer Recess appointment Riddick's Senate Procedure Senate hold Senatorial courtesy Seniority Standing Rules Tie-breaking votes Traditions Treaty Clause

Committees	Chairman and ranking member Of the Whole Conference Discharge petition Hearings Markup Oversight List (Joint) List (House) List (Senate) Select and special Standing Subcommittees

Items	Gavels Mace of the House

History	Divided government House Gerrymandering Party control Senate Senate election disputes

Media	C-SPAN Congressional Quarterly The Hill Politico Roll Call

Websites: House of Representatives; Senate

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