찰스 커티스

소개

찰스 커티스(Charles Curtis, 1860년 1월 25일 ~ 1936년 2월 8일)는 미국의 정치인으로 허버트 후버 대통령 아래 제31대 부통령 을 지냈다. 그는 아메리카 인디언 계통으로 최초로 직무를 지낸 사람이 되었다.

Charles Curtis was the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under President Herbert Hoover. He was the Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929. An enrolled citizen of the Kaw Nation born in the Kansas Territory, Curtis was the first Native American to serve in the United States Congress, where he served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate before becoming Senate Majority Leader. Curtis also was the first and only Native American and first multiracial person to serve as vice president.