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Name Image Term Ethnicity State Party Offices held Kamala Harris (1964–) 2021–present: Indian American: California: Democratic: Harris, who is half Indian American, [8] became the US' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history, and the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.
Since 1957, 41 Asian Americans have been elected as U.S. Representatives and 9 as U.S. Senators. 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).
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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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]
In the mid-2010s, lawmakers of Asian descent secured a majority of San Francisco’s top offices, including the mayoral post and two Assembly seats, as well as five of 11 positions on the board of ...
Asian American voters are expected to make up 6.1% of the 2024 electorate, according to the Pew Research Center. In 2020, 72% of Asian voters said they voted for Joe Biden, versus 28% for Donald ...
Ranjeev Puri (born c. 1984) is an American politician serving as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives since 2021, representing the 24th district, and serving as the House Majority Whip since 2023. Before joining the Legislature, Puri worked in financial consulting and then went on to work for President Barack Obama.