Tom Cole
Tom Cole | |
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Official portrait, 2021 | |
| Chair of the House Appropriations Committee | |
| Assumed office April 10, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Kay Granger |
| Chair of the House Rules Committee | |
| In office January 3, 2023 – April 10, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Jim McGovern |
| Succeeded by | Michael C. Burgess |
| Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee | |
| In office January 3, 2019 – January 3, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Jim McGovern |
| Succeeded by | Jim McGovern |
| Chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee | |
| In office January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2009 | |
| Leader | John Boehner |
| Preceded by | Tom Reynolds |
| Succeeded by | Pete Sessions |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 4th district | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2003 | |
| Preceded by | J. C. Watts |
| 26th Secretary of State of Oklahoma | |
| In office January 9, 1995 – March 16, 1999 | |
| Governor | Frank Keating |
| Preceded by | Glo Henley |
| Succeeded by | Mike Hunter |
| Member of the Oklahoma Senate from the 45th district | |
| In office November 1988 – July 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Helen Cole |
| Succeeded by | Helen Cole |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Thomas Jeffery Cole April 28, 1949 Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Spouse |
Ellen Decker (m. 1971) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Helen Cole (mother) Te Ata (great-aunt) |
| Education | Grinnell College (BA) Yale University (MA) University of Oklahoma (PhD) |
| Website | House website Campaign website |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Life and Labor in the Isle of Dogs: The Origins and Evolution of an East London Working-Class Community, 1800–1980 (1984) |
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Thomas Jeffery Cole (born April 28, 1949) is an American politician and former educator serving as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district since 2003. A Republican, he previously served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1988 to 1991 and as the 26th secretary of state of Oklahoma from 1995 to 1999. An enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, Cole is the longest-serving Native American in the history of Congress. On April 10, 2024, Cole was elected chair of the House Appropriations Committee.