Gary Faye Locke (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician and the current United States Ambassador to China.
Locke was the 21st Governor of Washington, rving from 1997 to 2005. He was the first governor of a state in the Continental United States of Asian descent, and is the only Chine American ever to rve as a governor. He was then appointed by President Barack Obama as United States Secretary of Commerce.
Locke was born on January 21, 1950, in Seattle, Washington. A third-generation American with paternal ancestry from Taishan, Guangdong, China, Locke is the cond of five children of James Locke, who rved as a staff rgeant in the United States Army's Fifth Armored Division during World War II, and his wife Julie, who is from 回家的路孩子你别忘Hong Kong, which at that time was a dependent territory of the United Kingdom. His parents gave him the Chine name of 駱家輝父与子图片, (pronounced Lok Gaa-Fai in Cantone). He did not learn to speak English until he was five years old and entered school.
Locke graduated with honors from Seattle’s Franklin High School in 1968. He achieved卑鄙的反义词 Eag
le Scout and received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award 父亲的希望from the Boy Scouts of America
陶埙怎么吹Through a combination of part-time jobs, financial aid and scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science 德川家纲in 1972.He later received his Juris Doctor from the Boston University School of Law in 1975.
唐朝李弘On October 15, 1994, he married Mona Lee, a television reporter for the NBC affiliate KING 5 television in Seattle. She is also of Chine ancestry, her father coming from Shanghai and her mother from海市蜃楼的意思 Hubei Province. The Lockes have three children: Emily Nicole, born in March 1997, Dylan James, born in March 1999 and Madeline Lee, born in November 2004.
