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Fong earned a Bachelor of Science in dentistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1943 and a Master of Arts (postgraduate)|Master of Arts from Mills College. She earned a Doctor of Education|Ed.D. from Stanford University in 1954. In 1966, Fong was elected to the California State Assembly from the 15th District, representing Oakland, California|Oakland and Castro Valley, California|Castro Valley. She served four terms. Eu was elected Secretary of State of California in 1974, becoming the first Asian American woman ever elected to a State constitution (United States)|state constitutional office in the United States. Eu was the only woman to serve as California Secretary of State until 2006, when voters elected Debra Bowen. Eu was elected Secretary of State five times. In 1978, she won every county in the state, even heavily Republican (United States)|Republican Orange County, California|Orange County, making her one of only four Democrats to win the county in a statewide race in the last half century. President of the United States|President Bill Clinton appointed Eu as United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia in 1994. She served in that post until 1996. In 2002, Fong ran again for Secretary of State, but narrowly lost in the Democratic Primary election|primary to Kevin Shelley, who went on to win the election. In 2003, she filed a statement of intention to run for governor of California in the California gubernatorial recall election, 2003|gubernatorial recall election of Gray Davis, but later withdrew. Fong is a Democrat, while her adopted son, Matt Fong is a Republican Party (United States)|Republican activist who served as California State Treasurer for a four year term that began January 1995. Eu lives in both Sacramento, California|Sacramento and Singapore; she lives with her second husband Henry Eu, a multimillionaire industrialist. ReferencesExternal links
# Category:1922 births Category:Living people Category:People from Oakdale, California Category:American politicians of Chinese descent Category:California Democrats Category:Secretaries of State of California Category:Members of the California State Assembly Category:United States ambassadors to the Federated States of Micronesia Category:Stanford University alumni Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni Category:Alumnae of women's universities and colleges Category:Women state legislators in California pl:March Fong Eu This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "March Fong Eu".
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