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New York City has a Korean American population of 141,745. Texas is home to 115,107 Korean Americans. New Jersey's Korean American community numbers 113,736. Virginia is home to 94,275 Korean Americans. Washington has a Korean American population of 92,798. Illinois includes 81,340 Korean Americans.
First American of Asian descent to be elected governor of a state of the United States. [11] He continues to hold the record as the longest-serving state governor in Hawaii. Ben Cayetano (1939–) 1994–2002: Filipino American: Hawaii: Democratic: First Filipino American to serve as a state governor in the United States. [12] Gary Locke (1950 ...
Governor Lieutenant Governor Attorney General Comptroller Land Comm. Ag. Comm. State Senate State House U.S. Senator (Class I) U.S. Senator (Class II) U.S. House; 1999 George W. Bush (R) Rick Perry (R) John Cornyn (R) Carole Keeton Strayhorn (R) David Dewhurst (R) Susan Combs (R) 16R, 15D 78D, 72R 3R Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) Phil Gramm (R) 17D ...
The trip to Asia also included visits to South Korea and Japan. The governor was joined by his wife, Cecilia; Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson; Democratic state Sen. Carol Alvarado of Houston ...
The governor of Texas is the head of government of the U.S. state of Texas. The incumbent, Greg Abbott, is the forty-eighth governor to serve in the office since Texas' statehood in 1845. When compared to those of other states, the governorship of Texas has been described as one of relative weakness.
In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, in 2022 beganbusing arriving migrants north to Democratic cities including New York City and Chicago, which struggled to house them.
A Texas Monthly investigation found marijuana indistinguishable from that available in legal states was being sold openly across Texas, often at levels that violate state law.
As of the 2010 U.S. Census there were 11,813 ethnic Koreans in Harris County, Texas, in the Houston area, making up 4.2% of the county's Asian population. [1] In 2015 Haejin E. Koh, author of "Korean Americans in Houston: Building Bridges across Cultures and Generations," wrote in regards to the census figure that "community leaders believe the number is twice as large."