Tom Cole

Official portrait, 2021 Thomas Jeffery Cole (born April 28, 1949) is an American politician and former educator serving as the U.S. representative for since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 26th secretary of state of Oklahoma from 1995 to 1999 and in the Oklahoma Senate from 1988 to 1991. In 2022, Cole became the longest-serving Native American in the history of Congress.

A member of the Chickasaw Nation, Cole is one of four Native Americans in Congress who are enrolled tribal members. The others are fellow Oklahoma Republicans Markwayne Mullin (Cherokee) and Josh Brecheen (Choctaw), and Democrat Sharice Davids of Kansas (HoChunk).

The Center for Effective Lawmaking, at Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia, ranked him as the third-most effective House Republican in the 119th Congress (2023–25). Provided by Wikipedia
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by Cole, Tom, Sebrechts, Britt
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by Englert, Christoph
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