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On December 18, 2007, he became the first Thai-American mayor of a U.S. city. In 2010, Charles Djou became the first Thai American elected to Congress; he had previously served in the Hawaii State House and Honolulu City Council.
Sheng Thao (RPA: Seeb Thoj, Pahawh: π¬π¬Άπ¬€π¬΅ π¬π¬²π¬π¬°; born July 18, 1985) is an American politician who served as the 51st mayor of Oakland, California from 2023 to 2024. She was the first Hmong American mayor of a major city in the United States.
Hawaii was the first of four states to send an Asian American to the Senate (1959) and Illinois is the most recent state to elect a senator of similar descent for the first time (2016). With respect to the House of Representatives, California was the first of 13 states to elect an Asian American to the House (1956), and Oklahoma is the most ...
Pan, who did not make the general election runoff for mayor, would have been the city’s first elected Asian American mayor. The other three leading candidates for mayor - Flo Cofer, Steve Hansen ...
Japanese American: California: First mayor of Fountain Valley, California [22] Norman Mineta (1931–2022) 1971–1975: Japanese American: California: Democratic: Served as mayor of San Jose, California. [23] Sak Yamamoto (1914–1997) 1973–1974, 1977–1979: Japanese American: California: Mayor of Carson, California [24] Eduardo Malapit ...
In an election year, losing Asian American candidates captures a tumultuous moment in local politics in the San Francisco Bay Area. ... the first Asian American mayor of San Francisco, who died of ...
1971: Norman Mineta becomes the first Asian-American mayor of a major city (San Jose, CA) in the United States. [51] 1971: Herbert Choy becomes the first Asian-American U.S. federal court judge, appointed to the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit. [52] 1972: Patsy Mink becomes the first Asian-American Democratic candidate for U.S ...
Helen Tran is poised to take office as San Bernardino's first mayor of Asian descent and third female. She defeated longtime City Atty. James Penman.