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In 2010, Inouye was sworn in as President Pro Tempore making him the highest-ranking Asian American politician in American history until Kamala Harris was the first Asian American to become Vice President of the United States in November 2020, and assumed the role of President of the U.S. Senate.
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 ...
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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Before Harris entered the race, 46% of Asian American voters said they would choose Biden. It was down from the 54% who said they planned to do so in the 2020 election . During that cycle, just ...
The Asian American population in North Carolina has grown about 63% since 2012, according to APIAVote, and the number eligible to vote grew 55% between 2012 and 2022. Candidates are noticing.
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