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Asian Americans represent a growing share of the national population and of the electorate. [1] The lower political participation of Asian Americans has been raised as a concern, especially as it relates to their influence on politics in the United States. [2] [3] Asian Americans were once a strong constituency for Republicans.
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]
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Buoyed by the expansion of by-mail voting and grassroots organizing, a record 4 million Asian American and Pacific Islanders voted in the 2020 presidential
Inouye was the highest an Asian American had reached in the line of succession until the Vice-Presidency of Kamala Harris. In 2010, Inouye announced his decision to run for a ninth term. [ 54 ] He easily won the Democratic primary—the real contest in heavily Democratic Hawaii — and then won against Republican state representative Campbell ...