Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Ben Nighthorse Campbell is an American Cheyenne politician who represented Colorado's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and was a United States Senator from Colorado from 1993 to 2005. He serves as one of 44 members of the Council of Chiefs of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe. During his time in office, he was the only Native American serving in Congress. He was the last Native American elected to the U.S. Senate until the 2022 election of Cherokee Markwayne Mullin.

13 April 1933

Born on the same birth day (13 April): David Robinson (philanthropist) • Edward Bruce (New Deal) • Garry Kasparov • Isaac Low • Maurice Buckley • Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy

Born in the same month (April 1933): Carol Burnett • Charles Sanderson, Baron Sanderson of Bowden • Easley Blackwood Jr. • Elizabeth Montgomery • György Konrád • Ignatius Zakka I • James Lockhart (historian) • Richard Rose (political scientist) • Tony Brown (journalist) • Vera Krepkina