Eu, March Fong

LC control no.	n 78053044
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Eu, March Fong *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	余江月桂
Located	Irvine (Calif.)
Birth date	1922-03-29
Death date	2017-12-21
Place of birth	Oakdale (Calif.)
Field of activity	California--Politics and government Education Diplomatic and consular service, American
Affiliation	California. Secretary of State Stanford University California. Legislature. Assembly
Profession or occupation	Secretaries of State (State governments) Legislators Educators Ambassadors
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	Calif. Secretary of State. Certified list of ... 1978 (a.e.) t.p. (March Fong Eu, Secretary of State) Calif. blue bk., 1975 (March Fong Eu, b. in Calif.; Ed.D., Stanford Univ.) Los Angeles times WWW site, viewed Jan. 2, 2018 (in obituary dated Dec. 22, 2017: March Fong Eu; became the first Chinese American to hold a constitutional office in California when she was elected secretary of state, the first woman to hold that office; died Thursday [Dec. 21, 2017] following surgery after falling at her home in Irvine; she was 95; after first serving four terms in the state Assembly from 1966 to 1974, she received the highest vote total ever at that time for a statewide politician to become the state's chief elections officer and keeper of business and archival records; unbeatable in the next four elections; nearly 20-year tenure; toward the end of her fifth term as secretary of state, Eu resigned when President Clinton named her ambassador to the Pacific nation of Micronesia, a post she held for two years until 1996; born March 29, 1922, in Oakdale, northeast of Modesto; received her bachelor's degree in dental hygiene at UC Berkeley, a master's at Mills College and a doctorate in education from Stanford University before running for the state Assembly in 1966)