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.
Senator (State) |
Senate Service |
Birth Place |
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David Hartley Armstrong(MO) | 1877-1879 | Canada | ||
David Baird(NJ) | 1918-1919 | Ireland | ||
Edward Baker(OR) | 1860-1861 | England | ||
James Burnie Beck(KY) | 1877-1890 | Scotland | ||
Judah Philip Benjamin(LA) | 1853-1861 | St. Croix | ||
Rudy Boschwitz(MN) | 1978-1991 | Germany | ||
Pierce Butler(SC) | 1789-1796; 1802-1804 | Ireland | ||
George Washington Campbell(TN) | 1811-1814; 1815-1818 | Scotland | ||
Eugene Casserly(CA) | 1869-1873 | Ireland | ||
John Conness(CA) | 1863-1869 | Ireland | ||
James Couzens(MI) | 1922-1936 | Canada | ||
James John Davis(PA) | 1930-1945 | Wales | ||
Charles Edward Dudley(NY) | 1829-1833 | England | ||
James Graham Fair(NV) | 1881-1887 | Ireland | ||
Eligius Fromentin(LA) | 1813-1819 | France | ||
Albert Gallatin(PA) | not seated | Switzerland | ||
Jacob Harold Gallinger(NH) | 1891-1918 | Canada | ||
Frank Robert Gooding(ID) | 1921-1928 | England | ||
William Harper(SC) | 1826 | Antigua | ||
Sam Hayakawa(CA) | 1977-1983 | Canada | ||
Mazie Hirono(HI) | 2013-present | Japan | ||
William Hughes(NJ) | 1913-1918 | Ireland | ||
James Jackson(GA) | 1793-1795; 1801-1806 | England | ||
Magnus Johnson(MN) | 1923-1925 | Sweden | ||
Charles William Jones(FL) | 1875-1887 | Ireland | ||
John Percival Jones(NV) | 1873-1903 | England | ||
Thomas Kearns(UT) | 1901-1905 | Canada | ||
Octaviano Larrazolo(NM) | 1928-1929 | Mexico | ||
John Laurance(NY) | 1796-1800 | England | ||
William Lorimer(IL) | 1909-1912 | England | ||
Walter Lowrie(PA) | 1819-1825 | Scotland | ||
Stephen Russell Mallory(FL) | 1851-1861 | Trinidad | ||
Lee Mantle(MT) | 1895-1899 | England | ||
Mel Martinez(FL) | 2005-2009 | Cuba | ||
James McMillan(MI) | 1889-1902 | Canada | ||
Joseph Hopkins Millard(NE) | 1901-1907 | Canada | ||
Robert Morris(PA) | 1789-1795 | England | ||
John Moses(ND) | 1945 | Norway | ||
James Edward Murray(MT) | 1934-1961 | Canada | ||
Knute Nelson(MN) | 1895-1923 | Norway | ||
Samuel Danford Nicholson(CO) | 1921-1923 | Canada | ||
Samuel Pasco(FL) | 1887-1899 | England | ||
William Paterson(NJ) | 1789-1790 | Ireland | ||
Thomas M. Patterson(CO) | 1901-1907 | Ireland | ||
Alexander Porter(LA) | 1833-1837 | Ireland | ||
Edward Vivian Robertson(WY) | 1943-1949 | Wales | ||
Carl Schurz(MO) | 1869-1875 | Germany | ||
William Joyce Sewell(NJ) | 1881-1887; 1895-1901 | Ireland | ||
James Shields(IL) | 1849-1855 | Ireland | ||
(MN) | 1858-1859 | |||
(MO) | 1879 | |||
Joseph Simon(OR) | 1898-1903 | Germany | ||
Pierre Soulé(LA) | 1847; 1849-1853 | France | ||
Isaac Stephenson(WI) | 1907-1915 | Canada | ||
Patrick Joseph Sullivan (WY) | 1929-1930 | Ireland | ||
George Sutherland(UT) | 1905-1917 | England | ||
Thomas Taggart(IN) | 1916 | Ireland | ||
Edward Tiffin(OH) | 1807-1809 | England | ||
Robert Ferdinand Wagner(NY) | 1927-1949 | Germany | ||
Patrick Walsh(GA) | 1894-1895 | Ireland | ||
David Levy Yulee(FL) | 1845-1851; 1855-1861 | St. Thomas | ||
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Michael F. Bennet(CO) | 2009-present | India | ||
Charles William Cathcart(IN) | 1852-1853 | Madeira | ||
Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz(TX) | 2013-present | Canada | ||
Tammy Duckworth(IL) | 2017-present | Thailand | ||
Felix Hebert(RI) | 1929-1935 | Canada | ||
John McCain(AZ) | 1987-2018 | Panama Canal Zone | ||
James Willis Nesmith(OR) | 1861-1867 | Canada | ||
George Tener Oliver(PA) | 1909-1917 | Ireland | ||
Chris Van Hollen(MD) | 2017-present | Pakistan | ||
Lowell Weicker(CT) | 1971-1989 | France | ||
George Peabody Wetmore(RI) | 1895-1907; 1908-1913 | England | ||
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Hiram Bingham(CT) | 1924-1933 | Kingdom of Hawaii | ||
Charles Bouligny(LA) | 1824-1829 | Spanish Louisiana | ||
Jean Noel Destréhan(LA) | 1812 | French Louisiana |