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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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 | ||
