List of Muslim members of the United States Congress

This is a list of Muslim members of the United States Congress.

As of 2025^[update], five Muslims have been elected to Congress, the first being Keith Ellison in 2006.^[1] As of the 119th Congress, four Muslims currently serve in Congress, all in the House of Representatives, and all being members of the Democratic Party.^[2]

Senate

Further information: Religious affiliation in the United States Senate

No Muslim has ever served in the United States Senate. In 2022, Mehmet Oz became the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, making him the first Muslim to be nominated by a major party for the U.S. Senate.^[3][4] Oz lost the general election to Pennsylvania lieutenant governor John Fetterman.

House of Representatives

Further information: Religious affiliation in the United States House of Representatives

In addition to the representatives below, former representative Hansen Clarke (D) of Michigan was raised in a Muslim family but converted to Catholicism. Current representatives Abraham Hamadeh (R) of Arizona, who identifies as religiously unaffiliated, and Yassamin Ansari (D) of Arizona, who identifies as an agnostic, were raised in Muslim families.^[5]

Representative		Party		District	Term			Notes
					Start	End	Length of service
	Keith Ellison		Democratic	MN-05	January 3, 2007	January 3, 2019	12 years, 0 days	First Muslim in Congress. Converted to Islam in 1982. Retired to run successfully for Minnesota Attorney General.[1]
	André Carson		Democratic	IN-07	March 11, 2008	Incumbent	17 years, 55 days	Raised Baptist, converted to Islam as a teenager.[6]
	Ilhan Omar		Democratic	MN-05	January 3, 2019	Incumbent	6 years, 122 days	First of two Muslim women in Congress. First Muslim to succeed another Muslim. Born to a Muslim family in Somalia and immigrated as a refugee to the United States in 1995.[7]
	Rashida Tlaib		Democratic	MI-13	January 3, 2019	Incumbent	6 years, 122 days	First of two Muslim women in Congress. Born to a Muslim family of Palestinian immigrants.[8]
	Lateefah Simon		Democratic	CA-12	January 3, 2025	Incumbent	122 days	[9]

See also

• List of Buddhist members of the United States Congress
• List of Hindu members of the United States Congress
• List of Jewish members of the United States Congress
• List of Mormon members of the United States Congress
• List of Quaker members of the United States Congress
• List of Arab and Middle Eastern Americans in the United States Congress