Tom Cole

Republican · OK-4 · U.S. House

Bio

Thomas Jeffery Cole 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.

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Record of service

In office: 23.6 years
First took office: 2003 (12 terms)
Seniority: 39 of 437 by time served
Age: 77

District offices

Lawton, OK · 580-357-2131
Norman, OK · 405-329-6500
Ada, OK · 580-436-5375

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$6.2M

2020

$7.3M

2021

$7.2M

2022

$7.0M

2023

$7.1M

2024

$8.7M

2025

$9.5M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $5.0M – $14.0M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $5.0M – $14.0M
Since 2019: +$3.3M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 63 assets reported

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund$1.0M – $5.0M

Tom's Federal Thrift Savings Plan ⇒ C Fund$500k – $1.0M

Cole, Hargrave and Snodgrass$250k – $500k

Personal Residence$250k – $500k

T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund$250k – $500k

Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund$250k – $500k

Fidelity Variable Annuity ⇒ Fidelity Freedom 2020 Fund$250k – $500k

Tom's Federal Thrift Savings Plan ⇒ G Fund$250k – $500k

Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Contrafund$100k – $250k

Fidelity Spartan 500 Index Fund$100k – $250k

Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI)$100k – $250k

Mid First Bank CD$100k – $250k

Vanguard Financial Index Admiral Fund$100k – $250k

Vanguard High-Yield Tax-Exempt Fund (VWAHX)$100k – $250k

Vanguard Total International Stock Fund$100k – $250k

Tom's Federal Thrift Savings Plan ⇒ I Fund$100k – $250k

Tom's Fidelity IRA ⇒ Fidelity Spartan 500 Index Fund$100k – $250k

Tom's Fidelity IRA ⇒ Fidelity Total Bond Fund$100k – $250k

Alliant Energy Corporation (LNT)$50k – $100k

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX)$50k – $100k

Burke & Herbert Money Market Fund$50k – $100k

Duke Energy Corporation (DUK)$50k – $100k

Mid First Money Market Fund$50k – $100k

Vanguard Energy Investor Fund$50k – $100k

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF (VGSH)$50k – $100k

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Fund (VFISX)$50k – $100k

Ellen's Fidelity IRA ⇒ Fidelity Contrafund Fund$50k – $100k

Ellen's Fidelity IRA ⇒ Fidelity Spartan 500 Index Fund$50k – $100k

Ellen's Fidelity IRA ⇒ Fidelity Total Bond Fund$50k – $100k

Tom's Federal Thrift Savings Plan ⇒ F Fund$50k – $100k

Tom's Fidelity IRA ⇒ Fidelity Contrafund Fund$50k – $100k

Tom's Fidelity IRA ⇒ Fidelity Diversified International Fund$50k – $100k

10 Acres of land in Johnson County, Owned with Brother$15k – $50k

Enbridge Inc (ENB)$15k – $50k

Federal Credit Union CD$15k – $50k

Vanguard Global Wellington Fund Admiral Shares (VGWAX)$15k – $50k

Vanguard Growth Index Fund$15k – $50k

Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund Admiral Shares (VGSLX)$15k – $50k

Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund$15k – $50k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.79

Healthcare

R+0.71

Immigration & Border

R+0.90

Guns

R+0.90

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.81

Crime & Policing

R+0.68

Defense & Veterans

R+0.78

Economy & Labor

R+0.82

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.67

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.05

Education

R+0.75

Government & Democracy

R+0.87

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Tom Cole's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

91%Closest

66%

30%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

15%

On the political map

Tom Cole (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Colesits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on AppropriationsChaircenter · 62 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Cole's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.