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Gary Locke (politician)

Gary Locke
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10th United States Ambassador to China
In office
August 16, 2011 – March 1, 2014
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Jon Huntsman
Succeeded by Max Baucus
36th United States Secretary of Commerce
In office
March 26, 2009 – August 1, 2011
President Barack Obama
Deputy Dennis Hightower
Rebecca Blank (Acting)
Preceded by Otto Wolff (Acting)
Succeeded by Rebecca Blank (Acting)
21st Governor of Washington
In office
January 15, 1997 – January 12, 2005
Lieutenant Brad Owen
Preceded by Mike Lowry
Succeeded by Christine Gregoire
5th Executive of King County
In office
January 4, 1994 – January 15, 1997
Preceded by Tim Hill
Succeeded by Ron Sims
Member of the Washington House of Representatives
from the 37th district
In office
January 10, 1983 – January 3, 1994
Preceded by Peggy Maxie
Succeeded by Vivian Caver
Personal details
Born Gary Faye Locke
(1950-01-21) January 21, 1950 (age 67)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Mona Lee (1994–present)
Children 3
Education Yale University (BA)
Boston University (JD)
Gary Locke
Traditional Chinese 駱家輝
Simplified Chinese 骆家辉
Cantonese Yale Lok Gāfāi

Gary Faye Locke (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician. Locke was the United States ambassador to China (2011-14). He was the 21st Governor of Washington (1997-2005) and served in the Obama administration as United States Secretary of Commerce (2009-11).

Locke is the first governor in the continental United States of Asian descent, and is the only Chinese American ever to serve as a governor of any state. He is also the first Chinese American to serve as the U.S. ambassador to China.

Gary Locke was born on January 21, 1950, in Seattle, Washington, and spent his early years living in the Yesler Terrace public housing project. A third-generation Chinese American with paternal ancestry from Taishan, Guangdong, China, Locke is the second of five children of James Locke, who served as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Fifth Armored Division during World War II. His wife, Julie, is from Hong Kong. His paternal grandfather left China in the 1890s and moved to the United States, where he worked as a houseboy in Olympia, Washington, in exchange for English lessons. Gary Locke did not learn how to speak English until he was five years old and entered kindergarten.


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