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- March_Fong_Eu abstract "March Kong Fong Eu (Chinese: 余江月桂; pinyin: Yú Jiāng Yuèguì; Jyutping: Jyu4 Gong1 Jyut6 Gwai3; born March 29, 1922) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. Fong earned a Bachelor of Science in dentistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1943 and a Master of Arts from Mills College. She earned a Ed.D. from the Stanford Graduate School of Education in 1954.In 1966 Fong was elected to the California State Assembly from the 15th District, representing Oakland and Castro Valley. She served four terms. Fong Eu led the campaign to ban pay toilets, arguing that they discriminated against women since urinals were free. Eu was elected Secretary of State of California in 1974, becoming the first Asian American woman ever elected to a 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 1976, she became the first woman to serve as governor of California, serving as acting governor while Jerry Brown was away. In 1978 she won every county in the state, even heavily Republican Orange County, making her one of only four Democrats to win the county in a statewide race in the last half century.In 1987 Eu was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, running against Leo McCarthy for the right to challenge the Republican incumbent, Pete Wilson. Amid poor fund-raising totals and her husband's unwillingness to release details of his business interests, Eu dropped out later that year. 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 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 gubernatorial recall election of Gray Davis, but later withdrew.Fong is a Democrat, while her adopted son, Matt Fong was a Republican activist who served as California State Treasurer for a four-year term that began January 1995. She argued that pay toilets discriminated against women because men could use urinals for free whereas women always had to pay a dime for a toilet stall in places where payment was mandatory.Eu lives in both Sacramento and Singapore; she lives with her second husband Henry Eu, a multimillionaire industrialist.".
- March_Fong_Eu birthDate "1922-03-29".
- March_Fong_Eu birthPlace California.
- March_Fong_Eu birthPlace Oakdale,_California.
- March_Fong_Eu birthPlace United_States.
- March_Fong_Eu child Matt_Fong.
- March_Fong_Eu governor George_Deukmejian.
- March_Fong_Eu governor Jerry_Brown.
- March_Fong_Eu governor Pete_Wilson.
- March_Fong_Eu office "Secretary of State of California".
- March_Fong_Eu orderInOffice "25th".
- March_Fong_Eu party Democratic_Party_(United_States).
- March_Fong_Eu predecessor Jerry_Brown.
- March_Fong_Eu predecessor Nicholas_C._Petris.
- March_Fong_Eu region California.
- March_Fong_Eu region Californias_15th_State_Assembly_district.
- March_Fong_Eu spouse Henry_Eu.
- March_Fong_Eu successor S._Floyd_Mori.
- March_Fong_Eu successor Tony_Miller_(California).
- March_Fong_Eu termPeriod March_Fong_Eu__1.
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- March_Fong_Eu wikiPageWikiLink Oakdale,_California.
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- March_Fong_Eu wikiPageWikiLinkText "March Fong Eu".
- March_Fong_Eu wikiPageWikiLinkText "March Fong".
- March_Fong_Eu wikiPageWikiLinkText "March Kong Fong Eu".
- March_Fong_Eu after Cheryl_A._Martin.
- March_Fong_Eu after S._Floyd_Mori.
- March_Fong_Eu after Tony_Miller_(California).
- March_Fong_Eu before Aurelia_Erskine_Brazeal.
- March_Fong_Eu before Jerry_Brown.