Senators Born Outside the United States |
The president is constitutionally required to be natural born, but foreign-born Senators need only nine years of U.S. citizenship to qualify for office.
Constitutional qualificationsto be a Senator are specified in
Article I, section 3.
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1877-1879 |
Canada |
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David Baird(NJ) |
1918-1919 |
Ireland |
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Edward Baker(OR) |
1860-1861 |
England |
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1877-1890 |
Scotland |
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1853-1861 |
St. Croix |
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Rudy Boschwitz(MN) |
1978-1991 |
Germany |
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Pierce Butler(SC) |
1789-1796; 1802-1804 |
Ireland |
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1811-1814; 1815-1818 |
Scotland |
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Eugene Casserly(CA) |
1869-1873 |
Ireland |
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John Conness(CA) |
1863-1869 |
Ireland |
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James Couzens(MI) |
1922-1936 |
Canada |
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James John Davis(PA) |
1930-1945 |
Wales |
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1829-1833 |
England |
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1881-1887 |
Ireland |
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1813-1819 |
France |
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Albert Gallatin(PA) |
not seated |
Switzerland |
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1891-1918 |
Canada |
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1921-1928 |
England |
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William Harper(SC) |
1826 |
Antigua |
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Sam Hayakawa(CA) |
1977-1983 |
Canada |
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Mazie Hirono(HI) |
2013-present |
Japan |
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William Hughes(NJ) |
1913-1918 |
Ireland |
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James Jackson(GA) |
1793-1795; 1801-1806 |
England |
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Magnus Johnson(MN) |
1923-1925 |
Sweden |
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1875-1887 |
Ireland |
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1873-1903 |
England |
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Thomas Kearns(UT) |
1901-1905 |
Canada |
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1928-1929 |
Mexico |
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John Laurance(NY) |
1796-1800 |
England |
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William Lorimer(IL) |
1909-1912 |
England |
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Walter Lowrie(PA) |
1819-1825 |
Scotland |
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1851-1861 |
Trinidad |
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Lee Mantle(MT) |
1895-1899 |
England |
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Mel Martinez(FL) |
2005-2009 |
Cuba |
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James McMillan(MI) |
1889-1902 |
Canada |
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1901-1907 |
Canada |
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Robert Morris(PA) |
1789-1795 |
England |
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John Moses(ND) |
1945 |
Norway |
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1934-1961 |
Canada |
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Knute Nelson(MN) |
1895-1923 |
Norway |
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1921-1923 |
Canada |
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Samuel Pasco(FL) |
1887-1899 |
England |
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William Paterson(NJ) |
1789-1790 |
Ireland |
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1901-1907 |
Ireland |
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Alexander Porter(LA) |
1833-1837 |
Ireland |
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1943-1949 |
Wales |
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Carl Schurz(MO) |
1869-1875 |
Germany |
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1881-1887; 1895-1901 |
Ireland |
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James Shields(IL) |
1849-1855 |
Ireland |
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(MN) |
1858-1859 |
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(MO) |
1879 |
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Joseph Simon(OR) |
1898-1903 |
Germany |
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Pierre Soulé(LA) |
1847; 1849-1853 |
France |
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Isaac Stephenson(WI) |
1907-1915 |
Canada |
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1929-1930 |
Ireland |
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1905-1917 |
England |
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Thomas Taggart(IN) |
1916 |
Ireland |
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Edward Tiffin(OH) |
1807-1809 |
England |
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1927-1949 |
Germany |
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Patrick Walsh(GA) |
1894-1895 |
Ireland |
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David Levy Yulee(FL) |
1845-1851; 1855-1861 |
St. Thomas |
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2009-present |
India |
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1852-1853 |
Madeira |
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2013-present |
Canada |
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Tammy Duckworth(IL) |
2017-present |
Thailand |
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Felix Hebert(RI) |
1929-1935 |
Canada |
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John McCain(AZ) |
1987- present |
Panama Canal Zone |
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1861-1867 |
Canada |
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1909-1917 |
Ireland |
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Chris Van Hollen(MD) |
2017-present |
Pakistan |
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Lowell Weicker(CT) |
1971-1989 |
France |
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1895-1907; 1908-1913 |
England |
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Hiram Bingham(CT) |
1924-1933 |
Kingdom of Hawaii |
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Charles Bouligny(LA) |
1824-1829 |
Spanish Louisiana |
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1812 |
French Louisiana |