List of United States senators born outside the United States
This is a list of United States Senators born outside the United States. It includes Senators born outside the United States, Senators born to American parents outside the United States, and Senators born in territories outside the United States that were later incorporated into the United States.
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Notes
- ^ Born in the British colony of Nova Scotia, in present-day Canada.
- ^ a b c Born in County Londonderry, Ireland, at the time part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- ^ Born in the British colony of Saint Croix, in what is now the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- ^ Gallatin won election to the Senate in 1793, and took the oath of office, but on the same day a petition was filed by nineteen Pennsylvania Federalists protesting that Gallatin did not have the minimum nine years of citizenship required to be a Senator. After two months of deliberation, the matter went before a Senate vote where Gallatin was removed from the Senate with a party-line vote of 14–12.
- ^ a b c Born in the British colony of Upper Canada, in present-day Canada.
- ^ Born in the British colony of Antigua, in what is now the independent country of Antigua and Barbuda.
- ^ Born in the British colony of Trinidad, in present-day Trinidad and Tobago.
- ^ Born in the Panama Canal Zone, a U.S. territory in present-day Panama.
- ^ Born in the British colony of Prince Edward Island, in present-day Canada.
- ^ Born in the Kingdom of Prussia, in present-day Germany.
- ^ Born in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, in present-day Germany.
- ^ Born in the British colony of New Brunswick, in present-day Canada.
- ^ Born in the British colony of Saint Thomas, in what is now the U.S. Virgin Islands.
References
- Senators Born Outside the United States – United States Senate