Assemblyman Tri Ta was elected to California’s 70th Assembly District in 2022. Previously, he served his first term on the Westminster City Council in 2006. Two years later, he was selected to serve as the Mayor Pro Tem. In 2012, Assemblyman Tri Ta made history and became the first Vietnamese-American elected mayor in the United States. 

Assemblyman Ta believes in our country’s mission of uplifting the individual by expanding freedom and opportunity. California and the United States have given him so much, he believes it’s only right that in return he does his best to make them better for everyone. Ta’s American Dream started when seeking political freedom, his family immigrated to the United States from Saigon, Vietnam. Within just a couple of years of arriving here, with hard work and determination, Tri graduated from Cal State Los Angeles.