Names
- Lisa Johnson Billy (b. 1967, Chickasaw Nation), member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, 42nd district
- Steve Burrage, (b. 1952, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell (b. 1933, Northern Cheyenne), U.S. Senator from Colorado, 1993-2005
- Charles Curtis (1860-1936), 1/8 each Kansa/Osage Nation/Potawatomi Indian, in addition to European ancestry- US Senator from Kansas and U.S. Vice President (1929–1933)
- Brad Carson (Cherokee Nation, b. 1967), US Representative from Oklahoma
- Charles David Carter (1868-1929) (Choctaw Indian) — U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, 1907-27 (4th District 1907-15, 3rd District 1915-27)
- John Tyler Hammons (b. 1988, Cherokee Nation), mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma
- William Wirt Hastings (1866-1938, Cherokee), U.S. Representative from Oklahoma 2nd District, 1915-21, 1923-35
- Chuck Hoskin (b. 1952, Cherokee Nation), member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from the 6th district
- Robert McDonald Jones (1808-1872) (Choctaw and Chickasaw)— Tribal Representative to the Confederate Congress, 1863-65. Represented Choctaw and Chickasaw nations.
- Greenwood Leflore (1800-1865, Mississippi Choctaw), chief of nation and later elected as Member of the Mississippi Senate, 1841
- Al McAffrey, Choctaw, Oklahoma state representative
- Skye McNiel (1978, Muscogee Creek Nation), member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, 29th district
- Robert Latham Owen (1856-1947) (Cherokee Nation), U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, 1907-25; candidate for Democratic Party nomination for President, 1920
- Ely Parker (Seneca Nation of New York), appointed to senior posts in the Grant administration
- Benjamin Reifel (1906-1990) (Rosebud Sioux Tribe), U.S. Representative from South Dakota 1st District, 1961-71.
- Will Rogers (1879–1935, Cherokee), honorary mayor of Beverly Hills, California
- Will Rogers, Jr. (1911–1993, Cherokee Nation), US Representative from California
- William Grady Stigler (1891-1952) (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), member of Oklahoma state senate, 1924-32; U.S. Representative from Oklahoma 2nd District, 1944-52.
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“A knowledge that people live close by is,
I think, enough. And even if only first names are ever exchanged
The people who own them seem rock-true and marvelously self-sufficient.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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