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• Position: Stateline - Brief Article

Voters in St. Paul, Minn., recently elected the nation's first Hmong legislator to the state Senate. Mee Moua, a lawyer and lobbyist, was born in Laos and spent five years in a refugee camp in Thailand before coming to the United States 23 years ago. She earned degrees from Brown University, the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in Texas and the University of...