Van Thai Tran (Trần Thái Văn in Vietnamese), born October 19, 1964) is an attorney and politician from California, currently serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing portions of Orange County. Tran and Texas State Representative Hubert Vo were the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected officials in U.S. history until Anh Cao was elected to the United States House of Representatives in December 2008. Tran ...
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Van Thai Tran (Trần Thái Văn in Vietnamese), born October 19, 1964) is an attorney and politician from California, currently serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing portions of Orange County. Tran and Texas State Representative Hubert Vo were the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected officials in U.S. history until Anh Cao was elected to the United States House of Representatives in December 2008. Tran took office one month before Vo did, making him the first Vietnamese American to serve in a state legislature. He currently serves in the Assembly Republican leadership as Assistant Republican Leader.
Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, Tran and his family emigrated to the United States after being evacuated by the United States Army one week before the Fall of Saigon, when he was 10 years old. After originally settling in Michigan, they moved to Orange County when Tran was a teenager. He married Cindy Nguyen on November 20, 2004. He and Cindy...
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