David Wu (traditional Chinese: 吳振偉; pinyin: Wú Zhènwěi; born April 8, 1955) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon's First Congressional District. The first district includes part of western Multnomah County and all of Yamhill, Columbia, Clatsop, and Washington Counties. As an ethnic Han Chinese from Taiwan, Wu is the first Chinese American and the first Taiwanese American member of Congress.
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David Wu (traditional Chinese: 吳振偉; pinyin: Wú Zhènwěi; born April 8, 1955) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon's First Congressional District. The first district includes part of western Multnomah County and all of Yamhill, Columbia, Clatsop, and Washington Counties. As an ethnic Han Chinese from Taiwan, Wu is the first Chinese American and the first Taiwanese American member of Congress.
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 (where he shared an apartment with Bill Frist), but dropped out. Instead, Wu received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1982. He is married to Michelle Wu,...
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