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- Sheng Thao has been elected as the next mayor of Oakland, California. She is the first Hmong American woman to lead a major U.S. city, the youngest Oakland mayor in 75 years and the first renter to hold the position. The daughter of of refugees who fled Laos during a genocide, Thao was born and raised in Stockton.
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Sheng Thao (born July 18, 1985) is an American politician who is the 51st and current mayor of Oakland, California. She is the first Hmong American mayor of a major city in the United States. [1] [2] She was elected as mayor of Oakland in 2022 and started her term in January 2023.
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Nov 8, 2022 · Sheng Thao is the Mayor of Oakland in California. She assumed office on January 2, 2023. Her current term ends on January 4, 2027. Thao is facing a recall election on November 5, 2024. Municipal elections in Oakland are nonpartisan.
In 2018, Sheng Thao became the first Hmong American elected to Oakland’s City Council. Five years later, she made history again by becoming the first Hmong American mayor of a major US city (Oakland).
May 23, 2023 · History was made earlier this year when Oakland, California, Mayor Sheng Thao was sworn into office, becoming the first Hmong American to serve as mayor of a major U.S. city.
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Nov 22, 2022 · The daughter of refugees who fled Laos during a genocide, Thao is the seventh of 10 children. She was born and raised in Stockton, where her family lived in public housing. She left home at 17 ...
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- East Bay Reporter
Nov 4, 2023 · CALIFORNIA—Sheng Thao ran a historic race when she was elected as the first Hmong American to serve as mayor of a major city. Thao was elected as Oakland’s youngest mayor in 2022, at the age of 37, winning only by 677 votes in a competitive, ranked-choice election, after trailing her opponent.
Nov 22, 2022 · Oakland Mayor-elect Sheng Thao talks about her background, how she got into politics and what she plans to do as the city's new leader.
