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This is a list of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans in the U.S. Congress.. Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The term refers to a panethnic group that includes diverse populations with ancestral origins in East Asia, South Asia or Southeast Asia, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.
For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from New York. The list of names should be complete as of January 3, 2025, but other data may be incomplete.
Grace Meng was born to a Taiwanese American family on October 1, 1975, in Queens, New York, [3] and was raised in the Bayside and Flushing sections of that borough. [4] She is of waishengren Taiwanese descent, [5] and is the daughter of Jimmy Meng, the first Asian to serve in the New York State Assembly, [6] and Shiao-Mei Meng. [7]
This is a list of members of the current New York delegation in the U.S. House, along with their respective tenures in office, district boundaries, and district political ratings according to the CPVI. The delegation has a total of 26 members, consisting of 19 Democrats and 7 Republicans.
Kim comes from a Korean American family who immigrated to Queens when he was seven. The only child of Seo Jun Kim and Sun Hee Kim, [4] he grew up in Flushing, Queens.He graduated from the Riverdale Country Day School [5] in the Bronx in 1997, where he was captain of the football and track teams. [6]
The practical development of a headband form can be seen in the way Korean-style top knots called sang-tu were secured by using the string ties of the mang-geon. Due to the abundance of horse farming in Jejudo, Korean mang-geon was popularly made with horse hair alongside thin human hair which was considered luxurious. The manggeon could also ...
Raymond Joseph (Ray) McGrath (born March 27, 1942) is an American educator and politician who served six terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1993. He was a Republican from New York .
[23] [24] In March 2020, while serving as a member of Congress, Rose deployed with the National Guard to assist New York City's coronavirus pandemic response effort. [25] He and his unit spent two weeks turning a Staten Island psychiatric center into an emergency hospital for patients with COVID-19.