The president is constitutionally required to be native-born, but foreign-born Senators need only nine years of U.S. citizenship to qualify for office. Constitutional qualifications to be a Senator are specified in Article I, section 3.
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Senator (State)
David Hartley Armstrong (MO)
David Baird (NJ)
Edward Baker (OR)
James Burnie Beck (KY)
Judah Philip Benjamin (LA)
Rudy Boschwitz (MN)
Pierce Butler (SC)
George Washington Campbell (TN)
Eugene Casserly (CA)
John Conness (CA)
James Couzens (MI)
James John Davis (PA)
Charles Edward Dudley (NY)
James Graham Fair (NV)
Eligius Fromentin (LA)
Albert Gallatin (PA)
Jacob Harold Gallinger (NH)
Frank Robert Gooding (ID)
William Harper (SC)
Sam Hayakawa (CA)
William Hughes (NJ)
James Jackson (GA)
Magnus Johnson (MN)
Charles William Jones (FL)
John Percival Jones (NV)
Thomas Kearns (UT)
Octaviano Larrazolo (NM)
John Laurance (NY)
William Lorimer (IL)
Walter Lowrie (PA)
Stephen Russell Mallory (FL)
Lee Mantle (MT)
Mel Martinez (FL)
James McMillan (MI)
Joseph Hopkins Millard (NE)
Robert Morris (PA)
John Moses (ND)
James Edward Murray (MT)
Knute Nelson (MN)
Samuel Danford Nicholson (CO)
Samuel Pasco (FL)
William Paterson (NJ)
Thomas M. Patterson (CO)
Alexander Porter (LA)
Edward Vivian Robertson (WY)
Carl Schurz (MO)
William Joyce Sewell (NJ)
James Shields (IL)
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Senate Service
1877-1879
1918-1919
1860-1861
1877-1890
1853-1861
1978-1991
1789-1796; 1802-1804
1811-1814; 1815-1818
1869-1873
1863-1869
1922-1936
1930-1945
1829-1833
1881-1887
1813-1819
not seated
1891-1918
1921-1928
1826
1977-1983
1913-1918
1793-1795; 1801-1806
1923-1925
1875-1887
1873-1903
1901-1905
1928-1929
1796-1800
1909-1912
1819-1825
1851-1861
1895-1899
2005-2009
1889-1902
1901-1907
1789-1795
1945
1934-1961
1895-1923
1921-1923
1887-1899
1789-1790
1901-1907
1833-1837
1943-1949
1869-1875
1881-1887; 1895-1901
1849-1855
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Birth Place
Canada
Ireland
England
Scotland
St. Croix
Germany
Ireland
Scotland
Ireland
Ireland
Canada
Wales
England
Ireland
France
Switzerland
Canada
England
Antigua
Canada
Ireland
England
Sweden
Ireland
England
Canada
Mexico
England
England
Scotland
Trinidad
England
Cuba
Canada
Canada
England
Norway
Canada
Norway
Canada
England
Ireland
Ireland
Ireland
Wales
Germany
Ireland
Ireland
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(MN)
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1858-1859
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(MO)
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1879
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Joseph Simon (OR)
Pierre Soulé (LA)
Isaac Stephenson (WI)
Patrick Joseph Sullivan (WY)
George Sutherland (UT)
Thomas Taggart (IN)
Edward Tiffin (OH)
Robert Ferdinand Wagner (NY)
Patrick Walsh (GA)
David Levy Yulee (FL)
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1898-1903
1847; 1849-1853
1907-1915
1929-1930
1905-1917
1916
1807-1809
1927-1949
1894-1895
1845-1851; 1855-1861
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Germany
France
Canada
Ireland
England
Ireland
England
Germany
Ireland
St. Thomas
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Born to American parents abroad
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Michael F. Bennet (CO)
Charles William Cathcart (IN)
Felix Hebert (RI)
John McCain (AZ)
James Willis Nesmith (OR)
George Tener Oliver (PA)
Lowell Weicker (CT)
George Peabody Wetmore (RI)
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2009-present
1852-1853
1929-1935
1987- present
1861-1867
1909-1917
1971-1989
1895-1907; 1908-1913
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India
Madeira
Canada
Panama Canal Zone
Canada
Ireland
France
England
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Born in territories not yet incorporated into the U.S.
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Hiram Bingham (CT)
Charles Bouligny (LA)
Jean Noel Destréhan (LA)
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1924-1933
1824-1829
1812
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Kingdom of Hawaii
Spanish Louisiana
French Louisiana
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