List of Buddhist members of the United States Congress

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This is a '''list of [[Buddhist]] members of the [[United States Congress]]'''.

As of 2020, only three Buddhist Americans have ever been elected to Congress, the first being [[Mazie Hirono]] and [[Hank Johnson]] in 2007. One Buddhist currently serves in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] and one Buddhist serves in the [[United States Senate|Senate]].

==Senate==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center;"
|- bgcolor=#cccccc
!colspan=3| Senator
!Party
!State
!Term start
!Term end
!Ref.
!Notes
|-
|style="background: ;"|
|[[File:Mazie Hirono, official portrait, 113th Congress.jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Mazie Hirono]]'''<br>
|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|[[Hawaii]]
|
|Incumbent
| <ref></ref><ref></ref>
|First Buddhist in the Senate
|-
|}

==House of Representatives==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center;"
|- bgcolor=#cccccc
!colspan=3| Representative
!Party
!State
!Term start
!Term end
!Ref.
!Notes
|-
|style="background: ;"|
|[[File:Mazie Hirono, official portrait, 113th Congress.jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Mazie Hirono]]'''<br>
|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|[[Hawaii]]
|
|
| <ref></ref><ref></ref>
|First Buddhist in Congress
|-
|-
|style="background: ;"|
|[[File:Hank Johnson official photo.jpg|100px]]
|'''[[Hank Johnson]]'''<br>
|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|[[Georgia]]
|
|Incumbent
|<ref></ref>
|First Buddhist in Congress
|-
|style="background: ;"|
|[[File:Colleen Hanabusa official photo.jpg|90px]]
|'''[[Colleen Hanabusa]]'''<br>
|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|[[Hawaii]]
|
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|<ref></ref>
| Her election made Hawaii the only state with a majority non-Christian House delegation. She was a member of the [[New Democrat Coalition]]
|-
|}

==References==




[[Category:Lists of members of the United States Congress]]
[[Category:American Buddhists]]

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