Citizenship Test Answers for California

Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in California.

62. What is the capital of your state?

This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.

23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?

California has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.

Look up California's senators at senate.gov

29. Name your U.S. representative.

Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.

All 52 of California's representatives, by district

District	Representative
1	James Gallagher
2	Jared Huffman
3	Kevin Kiley
4	Mike Thompson
5	Tom McClintock
6	Ami Bera
7	Doris O. Matsui
8	John Garamendi
9	Josh Harder
10	Mark DeSaulnier
11	Nancy Pelosi
12	Lateefah Simon
13	Adam Gray
14	Aisha Wahab
15	Kevin Mullin
16	Sam T. Liccardo
17	Ro Khanna
18	Zoe Lofgren
19	Jimmy Panetta
20	Vince Fong
21	Jim Costa
22	David G. Valadao
23	Jay Obernolte
24	Salud O. Carbajal
25	Raul Ruiz
26	Julia Brownley
27	George Whitesides
28	Judy Chu
29	Luz M. Rivas
30	Laura Friedman
31	Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.
32	Brad Sherman
33	Pete Aguilar
34	Jimmy Gomez
35	Norma J. Torres
36	Ted Lieu
37	Sydney Kamlager-Dove
38	Linda T. Sánchez
39	Mark Takano
40	Young Kim
41	Ken Calvert
42	Robert Garcia
43	Maxine Waters
44	Nanette Diaz Barragán
45	Derek Tran
46	J. Luis Correa
47	Dave Min
48	Darrell Issa
49	Mike Levin
50	Scott H. Peters
51	Sara Jacobs
52	Juan Vargas

If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.

Find your representative at house.gov

Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.

61. Who is the governor of your state now?

Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable place to check.

Background on California

Sacramento has been California's capital since 1854 and is nowhere near its largest city, which is the point of the question: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco are all bigger. The city grew out of the gold rush as the supply point at the head of river navigation. California came into the Union in 1850 as the 31st state, admitted as a free state under the Compromise of 1850, one of the bargains that postponed the Civil War for a decade. It holds 52 congressional districts, the largest delegation in the House, and 54 electoral votes, meaning roughly one in eight members of the House represents part of California. The representative question therefore turns entirely on your address.

This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.

The other 124 questions

Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.