Assemblyman Tran Thai Van (Trần Thái Văn) a devout anti-communist, is the first Vietnamese American elected to state of California legislature and he is the highest elected Vietnamese-American in the United States.

Tran Thai Van attended University of California and earned a B.A. in Political Science and Masters degree in Public Administration. He then attended Hamline University and earned a law degree.

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• "The war may have ended for the United States, but for many Vietnamese refugees, the war still continues at another level, at a political level"

External links

• Assemblyman Tran Thai Van (http://republican.assembly.ca.gov/members/index.asp?Dist=68&Lang=1) Official
• California Vietnamese Celebrate Bush Re-Election, Victories in Local Offices (http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=d6abfaee9768d9265ee9f2d53ab724aa)
• Calif. Hopeful Blazes Trail for Vietnamese-Americans (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,130035,00.html)
• Tran vs. Tran Lunar New Year in Little Saigon (http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/03/52/news-arellano.php)
• Now Tran Is Walking the Victory Trail (http://www.hungnguyen.com/PRNews/news_110900.htm)
• Van Tran visits the Vietnam war memorial Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004, in Westminster, Calif. (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041104/480/carf10111040124)

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