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American lawyer and politician (born 1947)
Available reporting and public records show no comprehensive, government-maintained count of how many current U.S. senators or representatives hold dual citizenship; multiple sources note the U.S. doe...
There are 18 foreign‑born voting members of Congress: 17 in the House and one in the Senate, according to Pew’s 2023–2025 accounting; the lone foreign‑born Senator is Mazie Hirono of Japan . The House...
At least one sitting U.S. senator is a naturalized citizen — Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii is identified as the lone naturalized senator in recent counts . The House list of foreign‑born members in t...
The Congressional Research Service counted 27 Representatives and 5 Senators — a total of 32 members of the 118th Congress — who were born outside the United States, representing 5.9% of the chamber’s...
A definitive roster of current House members who are naturalized U.S. citizens is published by the ; that document lists every foreign‑born Representative and their places of birth . Public analyses b...
A small but persistent minority of members of Congress were born outside the present-day United States; counts vary by methodology but recent authoritative tallies show a handful of naturalized lawmak...
The 119th Congress includes a measurable cohort of foreign‑born members: congressional research and Pew data show 26 Representatives and six Senators were born outside the United States, and roughly 1...
"Sae Joon Park" appears in reporting as two distinct public figures: a U.S. Army veteran, Purple Heart recipient who self‑deported to South Korea under a removal order, and a name similar to Korean ac...
At the opening of the 119th Congress, 32 members of Congress were born outside the United States — 26 Representatives and six Senators — but the public record compiled by the sources provided does not...
Counting how many members of the were born outside the depends on definitions and the snapshot in time: reputable, recent tallies put the number of between roughly 18 and the mid‑20s. counted 18 forei...
Naturalized citizens have served in the U.S. Senate, and multiple sources provide overlapping but sometimes conflicting lists of notable examples; (born in Japan) consistently appears as a recent, cle...
A clear count of members of Congress who publicly acknowledge foreign birth is available from institutional surveys: the Congressional Research Service and related congressional directories identify d...
Several bipartisan packages and standalone bills in both chambers of Congress seek to create permanent‑residency paths or other reentry routes for deported veterans; principal sponsors include Sen. Ta...
The 118th Congress included a small but noticeable contingent of foreign‑born lawmakers: major public tallies report 18 voting members born outside the United States — 17 in the House and one in the S...
The publicly available reporting reviewed for this briefing identifies Mazie Keiko Hirono as the lone current U.S. senator who is a naturalized citizen; she was born in Japan and later became a U.S. c...
Several U.S. politicians have publicly or pledged to forgo pay, and this practice spans presidents and members of Congress over many decades rather than being unique to any single officeholder. Histor...
the primary sources supplied identify foreign‑born senators in general and discuss constitutional rules and a few modern examples, but none delivers a complete, dated list of which foreign‑born senato...
A long but underappreciated thread in American political history is that a significant number of U.S. senators were born outside the present-day United States; the Senate’s own directory and compiled ...
A small but notable group of U.S. senators were born outside the geographic United States yet acquired U.S. citizenship at birth because of their parents’ citizenship or because they were born in U.S....
Pew counted 18 members of the 118th Congress who were born abroad and became U.S. citizens through naturalization, a figure that represents the foreign‑born portion of that Congress (Pew’s tally of th...