Charles Curtis 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.
46 Facts About Charles Curtis
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Charles Curtis had served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929.
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Charles Curtis 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 US House of Representatives.
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Charles Curtis was elected to the US Senate first by the Kansas Legislature in 1906 and then by popular vote in 1914,1920, and 1926.
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Charles 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.
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Charles Curtis's long popularity and connections in Kansas and federal politics helped make Curtis a strong leader in the Senate.
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Charles Curtis marshaled support to be elected as Republican Whip from 1915 to 1924 and then as Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929.
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Charles Curtis remains the highest-ranking enrolled Native American who ever served in the federal government.
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Charles Curtis is the most recent officer of the executive branch to have been born in a territory, rather than a state or federal district.
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Charles Curtis remained the only mixed-race vice president in American history until the inauguration of Kamala Harris in 2021.
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On his mother's side, Charles Curtis was a descendant of chief White Plume of the Kaw Nation and chief Pawhuska of the Osage.
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Charles Curtis died in 1863, when he was 3 years old, but he lived for some time thereafter with his maternal grandparents on the Kaw reservation and returned to them in later years.
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Charles Curtis learned to love racing horses and was later a highly successful jockey in prairie horse races.
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Charles Curtis's father tried unsuccessfully to get control of that land.
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Orren Charles Curtis married a third time and had a daughter, Theresa Permelia "Dolly" Charles Curtis, who was born in 1866, after the end of the war.
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Charles Curtis re-enrolled in the Kaw Nation, which had been removed from Kansas to Indian Territory when he was in his teens.
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Charles Curtis read law in an established firm, where he worked part time.
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Charles Curtis was admitted to the bar in 1881 and began his practice in Topeka.
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Charles Curtis served as prosecuting attorney of Shawnee County, Kansas, from 1885 to 1889.
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On November 27,1884, Charles Curtis married Annie Elizabeth Baird.
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Charles Curtis had lived with her husband, Edward Everett Gann, in Washington, DC, since about 1903.
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Charles Curtis was a lawyer and once an assistant attorney general in the government.
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Charles Curtis served several consecutive terms in the House from March 4,1893, to January 28,1907.
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Charles Curtis served the remainder of his current term, which ended on March 4,1907.
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In 1912, Democrats won control of the Kansas legislature and so Charles Curtis was not re-elected.
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In 1914, Charles Curtis was elected to Kansas's other Senate seat by popular vote and was re-elected in 1920 and 1926.
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Charles Curtis was elected for a decade as Senate Minority Whip and for four years as Senate Majority Leader after Republicans won control of the chamber.
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Charles Curtis had experience in all the senior leadership positions in the Senate and was highly respected for his ability to work with members on both sides of the aisle.
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Charles Curtis was effective in collaboration and moving legislation forward in the Senate.
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Charles Curtis continually referred to it, which resulted in his being known for "his remarkable memory for faces and names:".
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Charles Curtis was celebrated as a "stand patter," the most regular of Republicans but as a man who could always bargain with his party's progressives and with Senators from across the aisle.
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Charles Curtis received 64 votes on the presidential ballot at the 1928 Republican National Convention in Kansas City out of 1,084 total.
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Charles Curtis resigned from the Senate the day before he was sworn in as vice-president.
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Charles Curtis arranged for a Native American jazz band to perform at the inauguration.
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The first person enrolled in a Native American tribe to be elected to such a high office, Charles Curtis decorated his office with Native American artifacts and posed for pictures wearing Indian headdresses.
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Charles Curtis was 69 years old when he took office, which made him the oldest incoming vice-president at the time.
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Charles Curtis was the first vice-president to take the oath of office on a Bible in the same manner as the President.
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In October 1930, in the middle of the campaign for 1930 midterm elections, Charles Curtis made an offhand remark that "good times are just around the corner".
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Charles Curtis failed to secure a majority of votes on the first ballot for the vice-presidential nomination.
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Charles Curtis received 559.25 out of 1,154 votes, with Generals Hanford MacNider and James Harbord being his nearest contenders.
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Charles Curtis opened the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and so became the first US executive branch officer to open the Olympic Games.
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Vice President Charles Curtis receives a peace pipe from Red Tomahawk, slayer of Sitting Bull.
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Vice President Charles Curtis presiding over the count of the Electoral College votes of the 1932 election.
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Charles Curtis decided to stay in Washington, DC, to resume his legal career, as he had a wide network of professional contacts from his long career in Congress and the executive branch.
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Charles Curtis participated in one of the earliest known triathlons in the city.
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Charles Curtis died there from a heart attack on February 8,1936, at the age of 76.