• The Cherokee delegate to the United States House of Representatives is an office established via the Treaty of New Echota in 1835. The office was intended...
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    Democrats Sharice Davids of Kansas and Deb Haaland of New Mexico were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and the 116th Congress, which commenced...
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    The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, they...
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    Kimberly Teehee (category Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from the Cherokee Nation)
    American (Cherokee Nation) attorney, politician, and activist on Native American issues. She is a Delegate-designate to the U.S. House of Representatives from...
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    The 1870–71 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 6, 1870, and October 6, 1871. Each...
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    The 1872–73 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 4, 1872, and April 7, 1873. Each...
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  • served in the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress, since 1917 following the election of Republican...
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    gambling. Similar to the promised non-voting tribal delegates in the United States House of Representatives, the Maine House of Representatives maintains three...
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    The 1864–65 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 5, 1864, and November 7, 1865,...
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  • Victoria Holland (category Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians)
    politician, and activist. She is delegate-designate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. Holland was born...
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    The 1868–69 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 1, 1868, and August 2, 1869. Each...
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    The 1874–75 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 1, 1874, and September 7, 1875...
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    The 1876–77 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 5, 1876, and March 13, 1877. Each...
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    National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865, W.W. Norton, 2012, pgs. 296-97 "Rules of the House of Representatives" (PDF). Archived...
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    recognized tribes of Cherokees in the United States. It includes people descended from members of the Old Cherokee Nation who relocated, due to increasing pressure...
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    The 1866–67 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 4, 1866, and September 6, 1867...
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    The 1862–63 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 2, 1862, and November 3, 1863,...
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    districts in the United States are electoral divisions for the purpose of electing members of the United States House of Representatives. The number of voting...
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    Elias Cornelius Boudinot (category Delegate to the Confederate States House of Representatives from the Cherokee Nation)
    co-founder of the Arkansan who served as the delegate to the Confederate States House of Representatives representing the Cherokee Nation. Prior to this he...
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    5 "Delegates of the Continental and Confederation Congresses Who Signed the United States Constitution". United States House of Representatives. Retrieved...
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    in the presidential election. Despite losing seats in the House of Representatives, Democrats retained control of the House and gained control of the Senate...
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    The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then...
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    The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the 1850s, its main political rival has been the...
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    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...
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    the Indigenous peoples of the United States or portions thereof, such as American Indians from the contiguous United States and Alaska Natives. The United...
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  • Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1 (1831), was a United States Supreme Court case. The Cherokee Nation sought a federal injunction against...
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    the United States and signed the Treaty of New Echota on December 29, 1835, which required the Cherokee to leave by 1838. Neither Chief Ross nor the national...
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  • S. Representative from Pennsylvania 1854–65, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1864, candidate for Vice President of the United States 1864...
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    Choctaw) each hold the right to a non-voting delegate position in the House of Representatives. As of 2019, only the Cherokee have attempted to exercise that...
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