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Dalip Singh Saund (September 20, 1899 – April 22, 1973) was an Indian-American farmer, academic, lobbyist and Democratic Party politician who represented California in the United States House of Representatives from 1957 to 1963. He was the first Sikh, first Indian American, and first Asian American elected to the United States Congress.
The American Sikh Congressional Caucus is a congressional caucus focusing on the interests of the American Sikh community. Co-launched by Judy Chu (D-California) and David Valadao (R-California), [1] the caucus seeks to address issues such as military discrimination, violence and bullying of Sikhs and raise general awareness of Sikhs and their contributions to America.
The first member of Congress to be killed or wounded in office was Henry Wharton Conway who was killed in a duel in 1827. The most recent death occurred in 1983 when Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying Larry McDonald, was shot down over the Pacific Ocean. The most recent Congress member to be injured was Angie Craig who was assaulted in 2023.
He was attacked and killed outside his home in September 2022 (Las Vegas Review-Journal) In 2022, he had turned his attention to Telles, a Democrat who was elected in 2018 as Clark County ...
The Stockton gurdwara, the oldest in the U.S., opened on October 24, 1912. [23]Sikhs have lived in the United States for more than 130 years. The first Sikh immigrants to the United States started to arrive in the second half of the 19th century, when poor economic conditions in British India drove many Indians to emigrate elsewhere.
The Las Vegas Police Department released graphic new photos that provide a chilling look inside Stephen Paddock's 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay Hotel room, from which he committed the worst mass ...
Killed by a mine owners' association informant in an attempt to cast blame on the Western Federation of Miners [55] James Strang: Democratic 1856 State Representative: Michigan Beaver Island, Michigan (at a steamship terminal) gunshot Thomas Bedford Killed by a disgruntled former member of a Mormon sect led by Strang [56] Mike Swoboda: 2008
BY MICHELLE RINDELS AND MARTIN GRIFFITH LAS VEGAS ... 2 officers, bystander killed in Las Vegas ambush. Isabelle Chapman. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:14 PM. BY MICHELLE RINDELS AND MARTIN GRIFFITH.