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In conjunction with figures derived from the Pew Research Center's 2021 "survey of the religious composition of the United States", [2] [165] the most basic breakdown of the above data indicates that 84% of the Senate identify as Christian (compared with 62% of the population), 9% identify as Jewish (compared with 2% of the population), 4% have ...
California elects United States senators to class 1 and class 3. The state has been represented by 48 people in the Senate since it was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850. Its U.S. senators are Democrats Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. Dianne Feinstein was the state's longest serving senator, who served from 1992 until her death in 2023.
Bernadine Craft - Former Member of Wyoming House of Representatives and Wyoming’s State Senate. John Danforth – former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican United States Senator from Missouri; ordained Episcopal priest; Kim Jackson - Democratic Georgia State Senator. First openly out LGBT state senator in ...
Pages in category "Catholic politicians from California" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Edward Kavanagh was nationally noticed as the first Catholic elected from New England in 1830. Kavanagh was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses, serving from March 4, 1831, to March 3, 1835. On January 4, 2007, Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic, became the first woman elected as the Speaker of the House.
Butler, appointed to the U.S. Senate by California Gov. Gavin Newsom after the death of Dianne Feinstein, leaves office after 14 months as Rep. Adam B. Schiff is sworn in Monday.
Pope Francis on Monday tapped Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego to become the archbishop of Washington, D.C., selecting one of his most progressive allies to head the Catholic Church in the U.S ...
The following list reports the religious affiliation of the members of the United States House of Representatives in the 119th Congress.In most cases, besides specific sources, the current representatives' religious affiliations are those mentioned in regular researches by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life at the Pew Research Center.