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Gary Locke

1950 - Today

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Gary Faye Locke (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician, attorney, and former diplomat from the state of Washington. Locke served as the 21st governor of Washington from 1997 to 2005, where he was the first Chinese-American governor as well as the first Asian American governor in the continental U.S. During the Obama administration, Locke served as Secretary of Commerce from 2009 to 2011, and as Ambassador to China from 2011 to 2014, the first Chinese American to serve in the role.First elected to the Washington House of Representatives in 1982, Locke went on to become King County executive in 1993 before being elected governor in the 1996 election. A former prosecutor by profession, Locke staked out a reputation as a moderate Democrat during his tenure. Reelected in the 2000 gubernatorial election, Locke was chosen by national Democrats to give the party's response to president George W. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Locke has received more than 933,500 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Gary Locke is the 13,676th most popular politician (down from 12,576th in 2019), the 6,690th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,547th in 2019) and the 415th most popular American Politician.

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  • 24

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  • 2.76

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  • 3.20

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gary Locke ranks 13,676 out of 15,577Before him are Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, Georgi Atanasov, Jim Fouché, Philippe Séguin, and Fergus Mór. After him are Serhiy Tihipko, Miquel Crusafont i Pairó, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Icel of Mercia, Ashur-rim-nisheshu, and Lyudvig Chibirov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Gary Locke ranks 336Before him are Aloma Wright, Muhammad Mian Soomro, Faouzi Benzarti, Ian McNeice, Lee Tamahori, and Arianna Huffington. After him are Mauro Bellugi, Kate Nelligan, Susan George, Maricica Puică, Dan Hartman, and Ronny Yu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Locke ranks 6,690 out of 18,182Before him are Jeanne Eagels (1890), Jason Lee (1970), Steve Jackson (1953), Charmian Carr (1942), Kim Manners (1951), and Josiah Royce (1855). After him are Charles F. Hockett (1916), Jeffrey C. Alexander (1947), Adele Goldberg (1945), Regis Philbin (1931), William Wilson Morgan (1906), and Neal Hefti (1922).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Gary Locke ranks 415Before him are Florence Bascom (1862), Timothy Pickering (1745), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), Jane Pierce (1806), J. William Fulbright (1905), and Bainbridge Colby (1869). After him are Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann (1933), Johnny Isakson (1944), David Rice Atchison (1807), Edwin Stanton (1814), Enoch L. Johnson (1883), and Metacomet (1639).