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In 2010, Inouye was sworn in as President Pro Tempore making him the highest-ranking Asian American politician in American history until Kamala Harris was the first Asian American to become Vice President of the United States in November 2020, and assumed the role of President of the U.S. Senate.
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. [1]
A Democrat representing St. Paul's East Side, she is the highest ranking Hmong American elected official in the United States in 2002. Aftab Pureval, Mayor of Cincinnati; Sean Reyes, current U.S. attorney general of Utah; Eunice Sato, became the first Asian-American female mayor of a major American city (Long Beach, California) in 1980
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As the midterm elections draw closer, a new survey shows a more complicated picture of the Asian American and Pacific Islander electorate than political
2010: Daniel Inouye becomes the first Asian-American President pro tempore of the United States Senate, making him the highest-ranking Asian-American politician in American history. 2015: Yumi Hogan becomes the first Asian-American First Lady of a U.S. State. [59]
Here are 10 politicians who marked historic firsts in the 2024 election. President-elect Donald Trump is the first convicted felon to be elected president of the United States. Donald Trump.
Balvir Singh – on the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders, New Jersey; first Asian-American to win a countywide election in Burlington County; first Sikh-American to win a countywide election in NJ [4] Dalip Singh Saund – first Indian-American congressman; Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California