Asian-American Firsts: Government U.S. representative: Dalip Singh Saund, 1956, representative from California. The first female Asian American elected to Congress was Patsy Takemoto Mink, elected in 1964 as a representative from Hawaii. U.S. senator: Hiram Fong, 1959, one of Hawaii's first...
Asian-American Firsts: Government U.S. representative: Dalip Singh Saund, 1956, representative from California. The first female Asian American elected to Congress was Patsy Takemoto Mink, elected in 1964 as a representative from Hawaii. U.S. senator: Hiram Fong, 1959, one of Hawaii's first...
Saund, Dalip Singh: First Asian-American in CongressFor a man who never considered himself a political figure, Dalip Singh Saund became one of the...Tannock, RayWorld & I
The year that Nixon won his first presidential election,Shirley Chisholmbecame the first Black woman to win a seat in Congress. Four years later, the New York representative entered the Democratic primaries, making her the first Black American and the first woman to seek the party’s nomination ...
The Asian College of Psychosomatic Medicine (ACPM) was founded as the Asian Chapter of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine (ICPM-AC) in Tok... H Ishizu - 《Biopsychosocial Medicine》 被引量: 3发表: 2012年 Psychosomatic medicine: Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Psychosom...
As of 2019, she remains the only woman Montana has elected to Congress. Each of Rankin's Congressional terms coincided with initiation of U.S. military intervention in the two World Wars. A lifelong pacifist, she was one of 50 House members who opposed the declaration of war on Germany in...
Fong was aware that as the first elected Asian-American senator, his actions would reflect on a community that then had little political clout nationally. "I think that he was actually concerned whether he would be able to make any kind of impact in the Senate, because he was a newcomer ...
Famous Firsts by American Women Famous Firsts by Asian Americans Famous Firsts by Hispanic Americans Famous Firsts in America Black History Timeline American history is full of African American trailblazers and pathfinders. Some names, like Barack Obama, are familiar to most of us. Others may ...
CA-45:Democrat Derek Tran will be the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress from California, CNN projects, unseating incumbent Republican Rep. Michelle Steel. The US Army veteran and son of Vietnamese immigrants will represent the predominantly Asian American district in Orange County. ...
Here we see a man named George White of North Carolina, the last Black man to have been born a slave serving in the United States Congress. Here we see another open door for Barack Obama to become the first African American president of the United States of America. Let’s fast forward...