Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis was the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. He is the highest-ranking enrolled Native American ever to serve in the federal government. Curtis believed that Indians could benefit by getting a mainstream education, assimilating, and joining the main society.
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Charles Curtis was the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. Curtis was a member of the Kaw Nation born in the Kansas Territory. Curtis believed that Indians could benefit by getting a mainstream education, assimilating, and joining the main society. He is the highest-ranking enrolled Native American ever to serve in the federal government. Curtis ran for vice president with Herbert Hoover as president in 1928. He also previously served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929. He was the first person with any Native American ancestry and with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the highest offices in theFederal executive branch. His father, Orren Curtis, was of English, Scots, and Welsh ancestry. Curtis’s mother, Ellen Papin, was Kaw, Osage, Potawatomi, and French. His first words as an infant were in French and Kansa, both languages learned from his mother. He lived for some time with his maternal grandparents on the Kaw reservation and returned to them in later years. He learned to love racing horses; later, he was a highly successful jockey in prairie horse races. Curtis was elected to the US Senate first by the Kansas Legislature in 1906 and then by popular vote in 1914, 1920, and 1926. He served one six-year term from 1907 to 1913 and then most of three terms from 1915 to 1929. His long popularity and connections in Kansas and national politics helped make Curtis a strong leader in the Senate.
He was instrumental in managing legislation and accomplishing Republican national goals. His daughter, Theresa Permelia, was born in 1866 after the end of the war after the Kaw men, painted their faces, donned regalia, and rode out on horseback to confront the Cheyenne warriors. No one had been injured on either side of the battle. After a battle, Jim Joe, the interpreter, retired with a few stolen horses and retired to a nearby Council Grove. After about four hours, the white settlers took refuge in the Council Grove and took refuge there for four hours. After the war, 100 Cheyennes invaded the Kaw Reservation and took control of it for about four days. The white settlers were forced to leave the area and move to the city of Topeka, Kansas, where they built a new town, which they called Wounded Knee. Curtis’ father tried unsuccessfully to get possession of his mother’s land in North Topeka; under the Kaw matrilineal system, he inherited from her. He died in 1863, when he was 3 years old, but he lived for a time thereafter with his mother and maternal grandparents. He had roughly 3⁄8 Native American. ancestry and 5 ⁄8 European American. His father was a descendant of chief White Plume of theaw Nation and chief Pawhuska of the Osage. Curtis served in the US House of Representatives from 1892 to 1913. He then went on to be elected as Republican Whip from 1915 until 1924.
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