Janet Nguyen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

Janet Q.
Nguyen (born May 1, 1976) is an American politician who served in the California State Senate.
A Republican, she represented the 34th district, encompassing parts of Long Beach and Orange County.
She is the first Vietnamese-American state senator in the United States and the country's first Vietnamese-American woman state legislator. Prior to being elected to the state senate, she was an Orange County Supervisor, representing the First District.
At the age of 30, she was the youngest person to be elected to the board of supervisors, the first woman to be elected from the First District, and the first Vietnamese-American county supervisor in the United States. She won her supervisor seat following a historic special election where two Vietnamese-American candidates received half of the total votes cast in a field of 10, separated from each other by only 7 votes.
She was sworn in on March 27, 2007, after a lengthy court battle.
She won a full, four-year term in 2008 in another historic election when all three major candidates were Vietnamese Americans.
She was reelected to a third term in 2012.
In a major upset, she was narrowly defeated by former Assemblyman Tom Umberg in the 2018 elections. Prior to her election to the Board of Supervisors, she served as a Garden Grove City Council Member and at age 28, was the youngest person ever elected to that body.

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