Cabinet Members, Ambassadors, US Senators & Representatives, and Governors

朱棣文 Steven Chu
Secretary of Energy, 能源部長

Steven Chu, Ph.D., born 1948 in St. Louis, MO, is an American physicist and currently the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. As a scientist, Chu is known for his research in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. At the time of his appointment as Energy Secretary, he was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research was concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. He is a vocal advocate for more research into alternative energy and nuclear power, arguing that a shift away from fossil fuels is essential to combat global warming.

Chu, a Chinese American, graduated from Garden City High School. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1970 from the University of Rochester, and his doctorate degree from University of California, Berkeley in 1976, during which he was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
In 1997, he married Jean Fetter, a British American and an Oxford-trained physicist. He has two sons, Geoffrey and Michael, from a previous marriage to Lisa Chu-Thielbar.

朱棣文 1948年在美國中部聖路易市出生, 祖籍中國江蘇太倉, 乃第2代美籍華人. 1970年在 Univeristy of Rochester大學畢業, 1976年在加州大學卜加利分校取得博士. 專業大學教授及主管. 1997年獲諾貝爾物理獎. 2009年被歐巴馬總統委任為能源部長.

註: 部長不算是民選官員. 是總統的內閣, 權高器重, 直達總統. 朱棣文是第二位, 亦是現任唯二的華裔部長之一.

駱家輝 Gary Locke
Secretary of Commerce, 商務部長

Gary Faye Locke, born 1950 in Seattle, WA. He is the current United States Secretary of Commerce and was the 21st Governor of Washington, serving from 1997 to 2005. Locke was the first, and remains the only, Chinese American to serve as governor of a state in United States history.
Locke is a third-generation American with paternal ancestry from Taishan, Guangdong in China, Locke is the second of five children of James, a native of the United States, and Julie Locke from Hong Kong, which at that time was a dependent territory of the United Kingdom.
He graduated with honors from Seattle’s Franklin High School in 1968. Locke achieved Eagle Scout and received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.
Through a combination of part-time jobs, financial aid and scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, earning a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1972. He then earned a law degree from the Boston University School of Law in 1975.
On October 15, 1994, Locke married Mona Lee, a former television reporter for the NBC affiliate KING 5 television in Seattle. Her father was from Shanghai, China and her mother from Hubei, China. The Lockes have three children: Emily Nicole, born in March 1997, Dylan James, born in March 1999 and Madeline Lee, born in November 2004

駱家輝 1950 年在西雅圖出生, 祖籍廣東台山水步鎮吉龍村. 乃第三代美籍華人. 2009年出任奧巴馬總統內閣為商務部長. 1997年被選為華盛頓州州長, 并連任至2005年. 之前 1994 – 1997年為帝王縣行政官, 1982 – 1993年為華盛頓州眾議員.

1972年駱家輝在耶魯大學畢業, 1975年在波士頓大學取得法律學位. 專業律師.

註: 美國有50州.  華盛頓州是其中一州. 2008年人口約6,549,224.州長乃最高領導人. 每任4年.
 

李碩 Daniel K Akaka
US Senator, 國會參議員

Daniel Kahikina Akaka, born 1924 in Honolulu, is the junior U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a member of the Democratic Party. He is the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry and is currently the only Chinese American member of the Senate.

His parents are Annie Kahoa and Kahikina Akaka. He entered the military immediately after high school graduation, serving from 1943 to 1947. During World War II he

served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He worked as a welder and a mechanic and spent his final months of the war as a first mate on the vessel Morning Star.
He earned a Bachelor of Education in 1952 from the University of Hawaii. He later received a Master of Education from the same school in 1966. He worked as a high school teacher in Honolulu from 1953 until 1960, when he was then hired as a vice principal. In 1963, he became head principal. In 1969, he was hired by the Department of Education as a chief program planner. Akaka then continued working in government, holding positions as director of the Hawaii Office of Economic Opportunity, human resources assistant for state Governor George Ariyoshi, and director of the Progressive Neighborhoods Program.
Akaka was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1976 to represent Hawaii's Second Congressional District. He won seven consecutive elections by wide margins. Akaka was appointed by Governor John Waihee to the U.S. Senate in April 1990 to serve temporarily after the death of Senator Spark Matsunaga (who died that month), and sworn into office on May 16, 1990. In November of the same year, he was elected to complete the remaining four years of Matsunaga's unexpired term. He was re-elected in 1994 for a full term, and again in 2000.
Akaka is married to Mary Mildred "Millie" Chong; they have five children (four sons and a daughter), 14 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
李碩 1924年在夏威夷出生, 是第三代美籍華人. 其袓父是福建出生, 移民檀香山後與夏威夷原住女子結婚, 當年夏島尚是王朝時代, 異族人與土著女子結 婚者依傳統從母姓. 李碩1952年畢業於夏威夷大學, 1966年取得碩士學位. 專業教育. 1976 - 1990年當選夏威夷國會眾議員, 是華裔第一人. 1990年當選夏威夷國會參議員至今.註: 美國國會由參議院及眾議院組成. 參議院有100人, 眾議院有435人. 每州只能派二位國會參議員, 故全國共有100人. 每任6年.

吳振偉 David Wu
US House of Representative, 國會眾議員

David Wu is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon, As an ethnic Han Chinese from Taiwan, Wu is the first Chinese American and the first Taiwanese American member of the House of Representatives.
Wu was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan to mainland Chinese parents who had settled in Taiwan due to the Chinese Civil War and in the United States with his family in 1961.He spent his first two years in the U.S. in Latham, New York where his family were the only Asian Americans in town.
Wu received a bachelor of science degree from Stanford University in 1977, and attended Harvard Medical School, but dropped out. Instead, Wu received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1982. He is married to Michelle Wu, and has one son, Matthew, and a daughter, Sarah.
Prior to being elected a U.S. Representative, Wu served as a clerk for a federal judge and co-founded a law firm, Cohen & Wu, which primarily served the high tech sector in Oregon's "Silicon Forest."
Wu was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998, and began serving in 1999 with the 106th Congress.
He won re-election in 2000, 2004,  2006, and in 2008 with no Republican candidate running, he captured 71% of the vote to win a sixth term over four minor party candidates.
He is a member of the Executive Board for the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and served as Chair from January 2001 to January 2004. He is also a member of the New Democrat Coalition (NDC), a group of moderate Democrats in the House.
吳振偉 1955 年在台灣新竹出生, 父母是外省人, 祖籍中國江蘇. 1961年與雙親來美. 1977年在史丹福大學畢業, 1982年在耶魯大學獲法律學位. 專業律師.1999年成功被選為俄勒岡州國會眾議員, 是華裔第二人. 二年一任, 今 2008年是第6次競選連任.註: 美國國會由參議院及眾議院組成. 參議院有100人, 眾議院有435人.

趙美心 Judy Chu
US House of Representative, 國會眾議員

 Judy Chu won the special election in July 2009 for the United States Representativefor California's 32nd congressional district, and the first Chinese-American woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress.
Judy was elected to the California State Board of Equalization in November 2006. Before joining the State Board of Equalization, Dr. Chu served three terms as a State Assembly Member from 2001 to 2006.
Prior to the State Assembly, Dr. Chu served on the Monterey Park City Council for thirteen years from 1988 to 2001, and served as Mayor three times. She began her career in public service as a Board Member of the Garvey School District from 1985 to 1988. Dr. Chu has been dedicated to education for decades, and was a community college professor of psychology for 20 years. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology and a B.A. in mathematics.

趙美心 1953年在加州洛杉磯出生, 是第三代美籍華人, 祖籍廣東新會古井. 在2009年7月特別選舉中被選為加州國會眾議員, 是是華裔女性第一人. 2007年被選為加州物稅局委員, 2008年為該局主席, 2009年為該局副主席. 之前 2001 – 2006年是加州眾議員, 1988 – 2001年為蒙市議員及前市長, 1958 - 1988年為 加域校區教委.

趙美心畢業 California School of Professional Psychology大學, 有博士學位. 專業心理學家, 曾任東羅省大學教授. 趙美心之夫是伍國慶, 乃現任加州眾議員. 趙之胞弟趙中求是加州桑尼維爾市 Sunnyvale議員. 可謂一家英材輩出.

鄺友良Hiram Leong Fong - 美國第一位華裔民選官員
** US Senator, 國會參議員

Hiram Leong Fong, formally Yau Leong Fong (1906 – 2004), was an American businessman and politician from Hawaii. He is most notable for his service as Republican United States Senator from 1959 to 1977, and for being the first Asian American and Chinese American to be elected as such. In 1964, Fong became the first Asian American to run for his party's nomination for President of the United States. As of 2008, he is the only Republican to ever hold
a Senate seat from Hawaii and the only
Asian American to actively seek the
Presidential nomination of the Republican Party.
Fong was born in the Honolulu neighborhood of Kalihi. He graduated from President William McKinley High School in 1924. In 1930, Fong obtained a degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and in 1935 obtained a law degree from Harvard University. He returned to Honolulu and worked in the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu. In 1938, Fong went into private legal practice.
The same year he founded his law office, Fong entered elected political life as a member of the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives where he became Speaker of the House from 1948 to 1954. During this time, he was one of the front most leaders in the fight to make Hawaii a state. He was forced into retirement when the Democratic Party of Hawaii successfully ended a Hawaii Republican Party stronghold over the territorial legislature by voting most Republican incumbents out of office.
Upon achieving statehood through the Admission Act of 1959, Hawaii returned Fong to elected office becoming one of its first US Senators.
After his retirement, Fong and his wife managed a 725 acre garden that was opened to the public in 1988. It was noted that he worked in the garden until a week before his death. Fong was a Congregationalist in religion.
鄺友良 ( 1906 – 2004) 是美國第一位華裔民選官員, 也是官階最高的一位. 1906 年在夏威夷出生, 是第二代美籍華人, 祖籍中國廣東中山. 其父16歲到夏威夷, 目不識丁. 鄺友良1930年畢業於夏威夷大學, 1935年在哈佛取得法律學位. 當時夏威夷尚未成美國的一州. 1938年當選夏威夷區代表, 至1954年. 其間 1944 – 48年為副區議長, 48 – 54年為正區議長. 二戰期間1942 – 1945 服役美國第7隊空軍, 官至Major. 1959 年夏威夷正式成為美國的一州. 當年被選為國會參議員, 至1977年退休為止. 為紀念鄺友良, 當局將夏威夷檀香山華埠郵政局命名為鄺友良郵政局.

吳仙標 S B Woo
* Lieutenant Governor, 副州長

Shien Biau "S.B." Woo, born 1937 in Shanghai, is an American professor and politician from Newark, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a former member of the Democratic Party, and served as Lieutenant Governor of Delaware from 1985-1989. Woo is a cofounder of the 80-20 Initiative and was its president.
Woo's ancestral hometown is Yuyao, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He fled the communist revolution in 1949 with his parents, and came to the United States at the age of 18, from Hong Kong. He received undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Georgetown College in Kentucky and his Ph.D. in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis. In 1966 he joined the faculty of the University of Delaware, where he became a professor of physics and astronomy. He retired in 2002 after 36 years. His wife's name is Katy; they married in 1963, and have two children, Chi I. and Chi Lan.
In his first attempt at public office, Woo was elected Lieutenant Governor of Delaware in 1984. Woo thus became the highest ranking Chinese American public office holder in the nation, and served one term from January 15, 1985 until January 20, 1989.
In 1988,  Woo ran for US Senate but lost the general election to the incumbent Republican. Likewise, in 1992, he ran for the U.S. House, but lost again.
Woo is a leader in the greater Chinese American community throughout the country, from whom his political activities dependably received strong financial backing. He is the past-president of the 80-20 Initiative, a group that attempts to organize Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) into a swing bloc-vote in presidential elections, intending to induce both major political parties to take the interests of the APA community into consideration. He also serves as a Trustee of the University of Delaware; an Institute Fellow at the Institute of Politics, the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
吳仙標 1937 年在上海出生, 香港長大, 祖籍中國浙江寧波. 1949年與雙親從香港來美. 在Kentucky’s Georgetown College大畢業, 1964年在 St Louis’ Washington University 得物理博士學位. 1966年開始在德拉瓦州大學任教至2002年退休.  1985 – 1989年被選為德拉瓦州副州長. 吳是80 – 20發起人之一, 亦曾當多年主席, 致力推動全美亞裔政治力量為目標.
註: 美國有50州.  德拉瓦州是其中一州, 但地少人稀, 2008年人口約873,092. 副州長乃第二高領導人. 每任4年.

趙小蘭 Elaine Lan Chao
* Secretary of Labor, 勞工部長                    

Elaine Lan Chao,  born  1953 in Taipei, Taiwan, served as the 24th United States Secretary of Labor in the Cabinet of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. She was the first Chinese American and the first Asian American woman to be appointed to a President's cabinet in American history. Chao was the only cabinet member to serve under George W. Bush for his entire administration. She is married to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell.
The eldest of six daughters, Chao was born in Taipei, to James S.C. Chao (趙錫成 ), a Shanghainese entrepreneur, and Ruth Mu-lan Chu (朱木蘭), a historian. Her parents had fled to Taiwan from mainland China after the Chinese Communists took over as a result of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. At the age of eight, Elaine Chao and her family emigrated to the United States. She attended Syosset High School on Long Island, NY.
Chao received her B.A. in Economics from Mount Holyoke College in 1975 and her MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1979. Chao also studied at MIT, Dartmouth College, and Columbia University. She is the recipient of 31 honorary doctoral degrees from colleges and universities around the world.
In 1986, Chao returned to Washington D.C. as Deputy Administrator of the Maritime Administration in the US Department of Transportation. From 1988 to 1989, she served as Chairwoman of the Federal Maritime Commission. In 1989, President George H. W. Bush nominated Chao to be Deputy Secretary of Transportation, the number two position in the department. From 1991 to 1992, Chao was Director of the Peace Corps. She was the first Asian American to serve in any of these positions. She expanded the Peace Corps's presence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia by establishing the first Peace Corps programs in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, and other newly independent states of the former Soviet Union.
Following her service in the government, Chao worked for four years as President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of America. From 1996 until her appointment as Secretary of Labor, Chao was a Distinguished Fellow with the conservative Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank.
趙小蘭 1953年在台灣出生, 祖籍中國上海嘉定. 1961年, 時8歲來美, 1975年在 Mount Holyoke College大學畢業, 1979年在哈佛大學取得工商管理碩士. 2001-2009年被當時小布殊總統委任為勞工部部長. 之前1989年為老布殊總統委任為運輸部工作, 最高至副部長. 趙小蘭是第一位的華裔部長.

余江月桂March Fong Eu
* US Ambassador, 美國大使

March Kong Fong Eu, born 1922 in Oakdale, California, is an American politician of the Democratic Party. She earned a B.S. in dentistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1943, an M.A. from Mills College, and a Ed.D. from Stanford University in 1954.
In 1966, Eu (then March K. Fong) was elected to the California State Assembly, representing Oakland and Castro Valley for four terms. She was elected California Secretary of State in 1974, the first Asian American woman ever elected to a state constitutional office
in the United States. Eu was the only female Secretary of State in California history until 2006, when voters elected Debra Bowen. Eu was elected Secretary of State five times. In 1978, she won every county in the state, even heavily Republican Orange County, one of only four Democrats to win the county in a statewide race in the last half century.
Eu was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Micronesia in 1994.
Her adopted son, Matt Fong, is a Republican who has served as California State Treasurer.
Eu lives in both Sacramento and Singapore; she lives with her second husband Henry Eu, a multimillionaire industrialist.

余江月桂可說是美國加州第一位華裔民選官員, 也是官階最高的一位. 1922年在中加州一小鎮Oakdale 出生.  祖籍廣東花都, 乃第三代美籍華人. 1943年在加州大學柏克萊分校取得學士學位,  後在 Mills College得碩士學位. 1954年在史丹福大學取得博士學位.

1950年代勝選出為北加 Alameda County 校區教委, 1966年又勝出為加州眾議員, 并連任四次至 1974年. 在1774年勝選出為州務卿, 并連勝五任. 1994- 2002年被當時克林頓總統派任為駐密克羅尼西亞Federated States of Micronesia大使, 是第二位亞裔人士當美國大使. 其韓裔收養子鄺傑靈 Matt Fong在1995年亦勝出為加州出納長.

張之香Julia Chang Bloch
* US Ambassador, 美國大使

Julia Chang Bloch was an American diplomat, and the first U.S. ambassador of Asian origin.
She was born 1942 in China, and moved to the United States when she was nine. She grew up on San Francisco. She earned her BA from UC Berkeley in 1964 and a MA from Harvard University 1967, and entered the civil service. From 1971 she served as a staffer for the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, and thereafter in a number of other roles, including administering a food-aid program. She was appointed ambassador to Nepal by President George H. W. Bush in 1989, and served until 1993. In the late 1990s, she joined the United States-Japan Foundation.

Currently, Julia Chang Bloch is the President of the U.S.-China Education Trust, a program devoted to promoting American Studies in China. She is also the Ambassador-in-Residence at the University of Maryland-College Park Institute for Global Chinese Affairs — and the Starr Senior Fellow for U.S.-China Relations at Peking University in Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai, China

張之香1942年在中國山東煙台出生, 9歲來美, 在三藩市成長. 1964年在加州大學柏克萊分校取得學士學位, 1967年在哈佛大學得碩士學位. 1989至1993年被老布殊委任駐尼泊爾大使. 是第一位亞裔人士當美國大使. 現是中美教育基金主席.

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