who was charles curtis and when does he born and where?
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was a United States Representative, a longtime Senator from Kansas elected to Senate Majority Leader, as well as the 31st Vice President of the United States. He was the first person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the two highest offices in the United States government’s executive branch (and the last until Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008). Most of Curtis’ maternal ancestry was Native American, and he spent years of childhood living with his maternal grandparents on their Kaw reservation. Born in January 1860 in the Kansas Territory prior to the arrival of statehood in January 1861, Vice President Curtis is notable as an Executive Branch officer not born in a state admitted to the union. Curtis was nearly half American Indian in ancestry. His mother, Ellen Pappan, was one-fourth Kaw, one-fourth Osage, one-fourth Pottawatomie and one-fourth French. His father Orren Curtis was of English and nor
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was a United States Representative, a longtime Senator from Kansas elected to Senate Majority Leader, as well as the 31st Vice President of the United States. He was the first person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the two highest offices in the United States government’s executive branch (and the last until Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008). Most of Curtis’ maternal ancestry was Native American, and he spent years of childhood living with his maternal grandparents on their Kaw reservation. An attorney, Curtis entered political life early, winning multiple terms starting in 1892 as a Republican to the US House of Representatives from his district in Topeka, Kansas. He was elected to the Senate first by the Kansas legislature, and then by popular vote in 1920 and thereafter. Curtis served in the Senate from 1915 to 1929. His long popularity and connections in Kansas and national politics helped m
He was a United States Representative, a longtime Senator from Kansas elected to Senate Majority Leader, as well as the 31st Vice President of the United States. He was the first person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the two highest offices in the United States government’s executive branch (and the last until Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008). Most of Curtis’ maternal ancestry was Native American, and he spent years of childhood living with his maternal grandparents on their Kaw reservation.
