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David Wu
David Wu (; born April 8, 1955) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1999 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Wu was the first Chinese American to serve in the House of Representatives and is best known for taking a strong stand in favor of human rights in his ancestral country. He was born in Taiwan and immigrated with his family to the United Stares at the age of seven. Wu was educated in the public schools of California and received his undergraduate degree from Stanford, attended Harvard Medical School, and received a JD from Yale Law School. Wu worked on the Electronic Medical Records provisions in the Affordable Care Act and actively promoted human space flight by NASA. He voted against the invasion of Iraq, the USA Patriot Act, and surveillance of American citizens by the NSA. He strongly favored closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. He resigned from Congress after accounts surfaced in the press of a voicemail left in his office alleging inappropriate advances toward a woman.
== Early life, education, and law career ==
David Wu was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, descended from a mainland Chinese family which has 2,500 year old roots in Suzhou, China. His parents were non-political refugees from China who moved from Suzhou to Taiwan in 1946, before the communist revolution. His father came to the United States as a foreign graduate student in 1955, but the rest of the family could not follow him because of American immigration laws that discriminated against people of Chinese descent. When President John F. Kennedy changed the law by executive order in 1961, Wu and his family joined their father in upstate New York. He was seven at the time and spoke no English. Two years later, the family moved to Southern California where Wu completed his primary and secondary education in local public schools. He attended Stanford University for his undergraduate education, studying biochemistry and receiving a BS in 1977. Wu attended Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 1978. He then attended Yale Law School receiving a JD in 1982.
Upon law school graduation in 1979, Wu accepted a judicial clerkship to work with Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. This was his first contact with the State of Oregon. He then worked with the law firm of Miller Nash, one of the largest firms in the Pacific Northwest. Among his community contributions was establishing the sister city relationship between Portland and his ancestral city of Suzhou, China. He was also a strong advocate for public secondary education, universities, and the research associated with them. After four years at Miller Nash, he and a partner founded the law firm of Cohen & Wu. The firm specialized in serving the high technology community and also represented several academic research institutions.
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