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Ánh Quang "Joseph" Cao (/ ɡ aʊ / GOW; [1] Vietnamese: Cao Quang Ánh; born March 13, 1967) is a Vietnamese-American politician who was the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district from 2009 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is the first Vietnamese American and first native of Vietnam to serve in Congress.
In 2008, after a federal grand jury indicted nine-term incumbent congressman William J. Jefferson on sixteen felony charges related to corruption the year prior, Joseph Cao was elected as the first Republican to represent the 2nd congressional district and most of New Orleans in more than a century.
The bill passed the House on April 29, 2009, by a vote of 249–175, with support from 231 Democrats and 18 Republicans, including Republican Main Street Partnership members Judy Biggert (IL), Mary Bono Mack (CA), Joseph Cao , Mike Castle (DE), Charlie Dent , Lincoln Díaz-Balart , Mario Díaz-Balart (FL), Rodney Frelinghuysen , Jim Gerlach (PA ...
Jefferson was defeated by Republican Joseph Cao on December 6, 2008, [2] and was the most senior Democratic incumbent to lose re-election that year. [3] In 2009 he was tried in the US District Court in Virginia on corruption charges. [4] On August 5, 2009, he was found guilty of 11 of the 16 corruption counts. [5]
Joseph Cao (born 1967) Vietnamese [H 8] Republican: Louisiana: January 3, 2009: January 3, 2011: 2 years, 0 days Lost reelection: Judy Chu (born 1953) Chinese [H 9 ...
2009 – Steve Austria (OH) and Joseph Cao (LA) are elected to U.S. Congress; 2010s. 2010 – Charles Djou (HI) elected to U.S. Congress; 2011 – Nikki Haley elected as governor of South Carolina. Eddie Baza Calvo elected as governor of Guam; 2013 – Eloy Inos elevated as governor of the Northern Mariana Islands
While CAPAC describes itself as non-partisan, all of its current members are Democrats, though some past members, such as Joseph Cao, were Republicans. The caucus generally includes members of East, Southeast, South or Pacific Islander descent, who are executive board members of the caucus.
Joseph Cao; J. Bobby Jindal; L. Harry Lee (sheriff) This page was last edited on 23 January 2021, at 16:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...