As of 2023[update], twenty-four Quakers have ever been elected to the United States Congress, the first being John Chew Thomas in 1799. One Quaker currently serves in the Congress.
Senate
Senator | Party | State | Term | Notes | |||
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William Windom | Republican | Minnesota | July 15, 1870 | January 22, 1871 | Successor qualified[1] | |
March 4, 1871 | March 7, 1881 | Resigned to become United States Secretary of the Treasury[1] | |||||
March 7, 1889 | January 29, 1891 | Lost re-election[1] | |||||
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Arthur Capper | Republican | Kansas | March 4, 1919 | January 3, 1949 | Retired[1] | |
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Joseph R. Grundy | Republican | Pennsylvania | December 11, 1929 | December 1, 1930 | Lost re-election[1] | |
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Paul Douglas | Democratic | Illinois | January 3, 1949 | January 3, 1967 | Lost re-election[2] | |
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Richard Nixon | Republican | California | December 1, 1950 | January 1, 1953 | Resigned, having ran successfully for vice president of the United States[3] | |
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John Hickenlooper | Democratic | Colorado | January 3, 2021 | Incumbent | [4] |
House of Representatives
Senator | Party | District | Term | Notes | |||
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John Chew Thomas | Federalist | MD-02 | March 4, 1799 | March 1, 1801 | Retired[1] | |
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John Conard | Democratic- Republican |
PA-01 | March 8, 1813 | March 8, 1815 | Retired[1] | |
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William Darlington | Democratic- Republican |
PA-02 | March 4, 1815 | March 3, 1817 | [1] | |
March 4, 1819 | March 3, 1823 | [1] | |||||
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Edward Bates | National Republican Party | MO-AL | March 4, 1827 | March 3, 1829 | [1] | |
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John Wethered | Whig | MD-03 | April 8, 1843 | March 8, 1845 | [1] | |
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Joseph Grinnell | Whig | MA-10 | December 7, 1843 | March 8, 1851 | Retired[1] | |
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Samuel G. Wright | Whig | NJ-02 | March 4, 1845 | July 30, 1845 | Died in office[1] | |
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David P. Holloway | Opposition | IN-05 | January 4, 1855 | January 3, 1857 | [1] | |
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William Windom | Republican | MN-01 | January 4, 1863 | January 4, 1869 | Retired[1] | |
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Isaac Ambrose Barber | Republican | MD-01 | January 4, 1897 | January 3, 1899 | [1] | |
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Thomas S. Butler | Republican | PA-06 | March 8, 1897 | March 8, 1903 | Died in office[5] | |
PA-07 | March 8, 1903 | March 8, 1923 | |||||
PA-08 | March 8, 1923 | May 26, 1928 | |||||
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William W. Cocks | Republican | NY-01 | March 4, 1905 | March 3, 1911 | [1] | |
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A. Mitchell Palmer | Democratic | PA-26 | March 4, 1909 | March 3, 1915 | Retired to unsuccessfully run for the Senate[1] | |
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Frederick C. Hicks | Republican | NY-01 | January 4, 1916 | March 3, 1923 | [1] | |
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Andrew Biemiller | Democratic | WI-05 | January 3, 1945 | January 3, 1947 | Lost re-election[1] | |
January 3, 1949 | January 3, 1951 | Lost re-election[1] | |||||
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Richard Nixon | Republican | CA-12 | January 3, 1947 | November 30, 1950 | Resigned on appointment to the Senate[3] | |
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Edward Tylor Miller | Republican | MD-01 | January 3, 1947 | January 3, 1959 | Lost re-election[1] | |
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William G. Bray | Republican | IN-07 | January 3, 1951 | January 3, 1967 | Lost re-election[1] | |
IN-06 | January 3, 1967 | January 3, 1975 | |||||
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Edwin B. Forsythe | Republican | NJ-06 | November 3, 1970 | January 3, 1983 | Died in office[1] | |
NJ-13 | January 3, 1983 | March 29, 1984 | |||||
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Rush Holt Jr. | Democratic | NJ-12 | January 3, 1999 | January 3, 2015 | Retired[6] |
See also
- List of Buddhist members of the United States Congress
- List of Hindu members of the United States Congress
- List of Jewish members of the United States Congress
- List of Mormon members of the United States Congress
- List of Muslim members of the United States Congress
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Political Graveyard
- ^ Bowdoin.edu[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Ingle, H. Larry (2015). Nixon's First Cover-up: The Religious Life of a Quaker President. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-2042-4.
- ^ Colorado state portal: Retrieved 10 October 2011. Archived October 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ^ Thomas D. Hamm, The Quakers in America, Columbia University Press, 2003, p. 160.
