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 made history as the seventh Korean American to be elected to the U.S. Congress, after winning a House seat in Massachusetts during Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections. Marilyn Strickland, another Democrat of Korean American descent, secured her fourth term in Congress. The Associated Press declared Koh the winner of Massachusetts' 6th congressional district over Republican Micah Quinney Jones.
After 77% of the vote was counted, Koh had a substantial lead with 63.42%, compared to Jones' 36.58%. Koh is a former White House official under President Joe Biden and had previously run for Congress in Massachusetts in 2018 but lost in the Democratic primary. Koh, who has family roots in South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju, was born to a Korean father and a Lebanese mother.
His grandfather once worked at the South Korean Embassy in Washington. "We need people who are focused on holding this administration accountable while also having an ambitious agenda to lower costs, ending the war in Iran, capping people's utility bills, making sure that we're"
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