Van Tran became the nation's first Vietnamese-American legislator when he was elected to the California Assembly Nov. 2.

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Van Tran became the nation's first Vietnamese-American legislator when he was elected to the California Assembly Nov. 2. A Republican from Little Saigon in Orange County, Tran was 10 when his family fled Vietnam. California voters did not give the nod to Ferial Masry in her bid to become the country's first Saudi-born lawmaker. Instead they elected the wife of a...

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