Tom Cole
American politician (born 1949)
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain
Races
- 2026 · U.S. House, OK-04 · General · Republican · on the ballot · incumbent
- 2024 · U.S. House, OK-04 · General · Republican · result not on file · incumbent · source
- 2022 · U.S. House, OK-04 · General · Republican · won · 149,879 votes (66.8%) · incumbent · source
- 2020 · U.S. House, OK-04 · General · Republican · won · 213,096 votes (67.8%) · incumbent · source
- 2018 · U.S. House, OK-04 · General · Republican · won · 149,227 votes (63.1%) · source
Background
Thomas Jeffery Cole is an American politician and former educator serving as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district since 2003.
More
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.
Campaign finance
As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC
Website and social
Sources
- Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
- Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-27 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cole
- Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
- Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2OK04055/
- photo_gallery — https://www.tomcoleforcongress.com/
- photo_gallery — https://cole.house.gov/about
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