Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover and the Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929. A member of the Kaw Nation born in the Kansas Territory, Curtis was the first Native American to serve in the United States Congress, where he served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate before becoming Senate Majority Leader. Curtis also was the first Native American and first multiracial person to serve as Vice President.Curtis believed that Native Americans could benefit from mainstream education and assimilation. He entered political life when he was 32 years old and won several terms from his district in Topeka, Kansas, beginning in 1892 as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives. There, he sponsored and helped pass the Curtis Act of 1898, which extended the Dawes Act to the Five Civilized Tribes of the Indian Territory. Despite Curtis being unhappy with the final version of it, implementation of the Act completed the ending of tribal land titles in the Indian Territory and prepared the larger territory to be admitted as the State of Oklahoma in 1907. The government tried to encourage Indians to accept individual citizenship and lands and to take up European-American culture.
Curtis was elected to the U.S. Senate first by the Kansas Legislature in 1906 and then by popular vote in 1914, 1920, and 1926. Curtis served one six-year term from 1907 to 1913, and then most of three terms from 1915 to 1929, when he was elected as vice president. His long popularity and connections in Kansas and federal politics helped make Curtis a strong leader in the Senate. He marshaled support to be elected as Republican Whip from 1915 to 1924 and then as Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929. In those positions, he was instrumental in managing legislation and in accomplishing Republican national goals.
Curtis received the nomination for vice president at the 1928 Republican National Convention, and became Herbert Hoover's running mate; the two won the 1928 United States presidential election in a landslide victory. In 1932, he became the first United States vice president to open the Olympic Games. However, when Curtis and Hoover ran together again in 1932 during the Great Depression, they lost as the public gave the Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner a landslide victory that year.
Curtis remains the highest-ranking enrolled Native American who ever served in the federal government. He is also the most recent officer of the executive branch to have been born in a territory, rather than a state or federal district. Provided by Wikipedia
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2by Heledd Hart, Lena Lim, Lena Lim, Mitul A. Mehta, Charles Curtis, Xiaohui Xu, Gerome Breen, Andrew Simmons, Kah Mirza, Katya RubiaGet full text
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3by Hai Le, Konstantina Dimitrakopoulou, Hamel Patel, Charles Curtis, Lucilio Cordero-Grande, A. David Edwards, Joseph Hajnal, Jacques-Donald Tournier, Maria Deprez, Harriet CullenGet full text
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4by Matthew Traylor, Rachel Knevel, Jing Cui, John Taylor, Westra Harm-Jan, Philip G Conaghan, Andrew P Cope, Charles Curtis, Paul Emery, Stephen Newhouse, Hamel Patel, Sophia Steer, Peter Gregersen, Nancy A Shadick, Michael E Weinblatt, Annette Van Der Helm-van Mil, Jennifer H Barrett, Ann W Morgan, Cathryn M Lewis, Ian C ScottGet full text
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5by A. David Edwards, A. David Edwards, Daniel Rueckert, Daniel Rueckert, Stephen M. Smith, Samy Abo Seada, Amir Alansary, Jennifer Almalbis, Joanna Allsop, Jesper Andersson, Tomoki Arichi, Tomoki Arichi, Sophie Arulkumaran, Matteo Bastiani, Matteo Bastiani, Dafnis Batalle, Dafnis Batalle, Luke Baxter, Jelena Bozek, Jelena Bozek, Eleanor Braithwaite, Jacqueline Brandon, Olivia Carney, Andrew Chew, Daan Christiaens, Daan Christiaens, Raymond Chung, Kathleen Colford, Lucilio Cordero-Grande, Lucilio Cordero-Grande, Serena J. Counsell, Harriet Cullen, Harriet Cullen, John Cupitt, Charles Curtis, Alice Davidson, Maria Deprez, Maria Deprez, Louise Dillon, Konstantina Dimitrakopoulou, Konstantina Dimitrakopoulou, Ralica Dimitrova, Ralica Dimitrova, Eugene Duff, Shona Falconer, Seyedeh-Rezvan Farahibozorg, Sean P. Fitzgibbon, Jianliang Gao, Andreia Gaspar, Nicholas Harper, Sam J. Harrison, Emer J. Hughes, Jana Hutter, Jana Hutter, Mark Jenkinson, Saad Jbabdi, Emily Jones, Vyacheslav Karolis, Vyacheslav Karolis, Vanessa Kyriakopoulou, Gregor Lenz, Antonios Makropoulos, Antonios Makropoulos, Shaihan Malik, Shaihan Malik, Luke Mason, Filippo Mortari, Chiara Nosarti, Chiara Nosarti, Rita G. Nunes, Rita G. Nunes, Camilla O’Keeffe, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, Hamel Patel, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Maximillian Pietsch, Maximillian Pietsch, Anthony N. Price, Anthony N. Price, Emma C. Robinson, Emma C. Robinson, Mary A. Rutherford, Andreas Schuh, Stamatios Sotiropoulos, Stamatios Sotiropoulos, Johannes Steinweg, Rui Pedro Azeredo Gomes Teixeira, Rui Pedro Azeredo Gomes Teixeira, Tencho Tenev, Jacques-Donald Tournier, Jacques-Donald Tournier, Nora Tusor, Alena Uus, Alena Uus, Katy Vecchiato, Logan Z. J. Williams, Robert Wright, Julia Wurie, Joseph V. Hajnal, Joseph V. HajnalGet full text
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