Dan Koh of the Jeju Goh clan elected to the U.S. House from Massachusetts [U.S. Midterm Elections]

[Financial News] In the U.S. midterm elections held on the 3rd (local time), Korean-American Democratic politician Dan Koh (Koh Won-young) was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
At 10:24 p.m. that day, the Associated Press called the race for Koh in the U.S. House election for Massachusetts’s 6th District. According to AP’s tally, with 14% of the vote counted as of 10:26 p.m., Koh had won 62.7%, well ahead of Republican candidate Micah Quinn Jones (37.3%).
Massachusetts’s 6th District, where Koh ran, is a strongly Democratic area. The Cook Political Report, an election analysis organization, has classified it as “Solid Democratic,” a district where Democrats hold a firm advantage.
Koh was born to a Korean father and a Lebanese mother, and uses the Jeju Goh surname, following his father. His grandfather, Dr. Kwanglim Koh, who was from Jeju Island, was a diplomat and international law scholar who served as a minister and chargé d’affaires at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the United States in the early 1960s. His father, Harvard University professor Howard Koh (Ko Kyung-joo), served as an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services under the Barack Obama administration. His uncle, Dr. Harold Koh (Ko Hong-ju), reportedly served as dean of Yale Law School and as legal adviser to the State Department under the Obama administration.
After graduating from Harvard University and Harvard Business School, Koh served as chief of staff to former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. He later built experience in local and federal government, including serving as a senior White House aide in the Joe Biden administration.
Koh also received support from former President Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris during the campaign. Having emphasized the need to check the policies of the Trump administration, he made easing the cost-of-living burden, supporting working- and middle-class people, and defending democracy among his key campaign pledges.
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