About Joseph Cao
Ánh Quang "Joseph" Cao ( GOW; Vietnamese: Cao Quang Ánh; born March 13, 1967) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district from 2009 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was the first Vietnamese American and first native of Vietnam to serve in Congress. Cao was the only Republican congressman to vote for the draft Obamacare, known as Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, in November 2009. In 2011, Cao was briefly a candidate for attorney general of Louisiana before dropping out. He later ran for U.S. Senate in 2016, but finished eleventh in the primary, not making it to the runoff. Dismayed by the government response to the disaster following Hurricane Katrina, Cao became more involved in politics.
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