Koh becomes 7th Korean American elected to US Congress; Strickland secures 4th term
Dan Koh became the seventh Korean American elected to the U.S. Congress after winning a House seat in Massachusetts in Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections, while fellow Democrat and Korean American Marilyn Strickland secured her fourth House term. The AP called the race in Massachusetts' 6th congressional district for Koh over Republican Micah Quinney Jones. With 77 percent of the vote counted, Koh…
Dan Koh has been elected as the seventh Korean American to serve in the U.S. Congress, winning a House seat in Massachusetts during the recent midterm elections. Koh, who is of Korean and Lebanese descent, secured 63.42% of the vote, comfortably ahead of his Republican opponent Micah Quinney Jones, who received 36.58%. Koh, 41, has previously worked in the White House under President Joe Biden and served as an aide to the former Boston mayor.
He ran for Congress in Massachusetts in 2018 but lost in the Democratic primary. Koh's family has roots in South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju, and his grandfather once worked at the South Korean Embassy in Washington.
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