Norman Mineta
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Emerging from a Japanese-American family in San Jose, he graduated with a business administration degree from UC Berkeley and served as a military intelligence officer in Japan and South Korea before entering local politics. After a council appointment, he became the city’s mayor in 1971, breaking new ground as the first Japanese-American mayor of a major U.S. city and curbing rapid annexation gro…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
