Allan Fung
| Allan Fung | |
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| Mayor of Cranston | |
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Assumed office January 5, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Napolitano |
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| Born |
Allan Wai-Ket Fung February 25, 1970 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara Ann Fenton |
| Alma mater |
Rhode Island College Suffolk University |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Allan Wai-Ket Fung (born February 25, 1970) is an American attorney, politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island since 2009 and was the Republican nominee for Governor of Rhode Island in the 2014 election.
Elected mayor in 2008, Fung became the first mayor of Chinese ancestry in Rhode Island. Fung previously served as a state prosecutor and attorney on legislative and regulatory affairs before serving on the Cranston City Council as a citywide councilman.
He lost the gubernatorial race in Rhode Island during 2014 to Gina Raimondo.
Allan W. Fung (Cantonese: 馮偉傑), born on February 25, 1970 at Providence Lying-In Hospital (now known as Women & Infants Hospital), Fung is the eldest of Kwong Wen and Tan Ping's three children. Crown colony Chinese immigrants from British Hong Kong, his family settled in Rhode Island in 1969, and ran a small business on Cranston Street and Gansett Avenue, Cranston, RI.
Fung graduated from Classical High School in Providence, RI in 1988. He earned a B.A. from Rhode Island College in 1992. He received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) law degree from Suffolk University Law School in 1995. He received the Classical High School Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009.
Fung met Barbara Ann Fenton, a physical therapist, at the 2012 Republican National Convention. They married in summer 2016. Fung converted to Catholicism before the wedding.
Prior to his municipal leadership career, from 1999 to 2001, Fung served as a prosecutor, acting as Special Assistant, for the Rhode Island Attorney General. Fung served from 2001 to 2009 as the government relations counsel for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company MetLife. In 2003, he was elected to the Cranston, RI City Council. In 2004, Fung was honored as a Rhode Island Bar Foundation Fellow. He is also a Providence Business News 40 Under Forty honoree. Fung was chairman of the Rhode Island Governor’s Insurance Council from 2005 to 2008.
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