List of American politicians of Armenian descent

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Between 1962 and 1991, George Deukmejian served as a State Assemblyman, Senator, State Attorney General and Governor of California. George Deukmejian Official Portrait crop.jpg
Between 1962 and 1991, George Deukmejian served as a State Assemblyman, Senator, State Attorney General and Governor of California.

This article is the list of Armenian American politicians, officeholders and party chairpersons.

Contents

Bold indicates incumbent officeholders.

Note: persons are classified by chronological order

Federal government

Cabinet officials

NamePositionTook officeLeft office President(s) Ref
Thomas Corwin [lower-alpha 1] Secretary of the Treasury July 23, 1850March 6, 1853 Millard Fillmore
Paul Ignatius Secretary of the Navy September 1, 1967January 24, 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson [5]
Robert Mardian Assistant Attorney General
for the Internal Security Division 		November 7, 1970March 1972 Richard Nixon [6] [7]
Harry R. Kamian Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Energy Resources 		September 7, 2021June 30, 2023 [lower-alpha 2] Joe Biden [8] [9]
Jeff Marootian Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy
in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy 		September 2022 Joe Biden [10] [11]

Executive Office of the President

Members of Congress

NamePartyStateYearsRef
Senate
Thomas Corwin [lower-alpha 1] Whig Ohio 1845–50
House of Representatives
Thomas Corwin [lower-alpha 1] Whig Ohio 1830–40
1859–61
Steven Derounian Republican New York 1953–65
Adam Benjamin Jr. Democrat Indiana 1977–82
Chip Pashayan Republican California 1979–91
Anna Eshoo DemocratCalifornia1993–
John E. Sweeney RepublicanNew York1999–2007
Jackie Speier DemocratCalifornia2008–23
Anthony Brindisi DemocratNew York2019–21

Federal Judicial

NamePositionDatesRef
Dickran Tevrizian Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California 1985–2005 [29]
Samuel Der-Yeghiayan Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois 2003–2018 [30] [31]

State government

Governors

NameStatePartyYearsRef
Thomas Corwin [lower-alpha 1] Ohio Whig 1840–42
George Deukmejian California Republican1983–91

Other state officials

NamePartyPositionYearsRef
George Deukmejian Republican California Attorney General 1979–83 [32]
Julia Tashjian Democratic Secretary of the State of Connecticut 1983–91 [33] [21]
Brad Avakian Democratic Oregon Commissioner of Labor 2008–19 [34]
Rachel Kaprielian Democratic Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development 2014–15 [35]
Peter Koutoujian Democratic Middlesex County Sheriff, Massachusetts2011– [36]

State Judicial

NamePositionYearsRef
Steven Derounian Justice of the New York Supreme Court 1969–81 [21] [22]
Robert Philibosian Los Angeles County District Attorney 1982–84 [37] [38]
Armand Arabian Justice of the Supreme Court of California 1990–96 [21]
Marvin R. Baxter Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California 1991–2015 [21]
Michael AmerianJudge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court 2018– [39]
Armenui AshvanianJudge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court 2018– [39] [40]
Zaven V. SinanianJudge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court2002–
Kaye TertzagJudge of Wayne County Circuit Court1987–2004

Legislature

Municipal government

Mayors

Other

Foreign service

Ambassadors

NamePositionYears President(s) Ref
Thomas Corwin [lower-alpha 1] Minister to Mexico 1861–64 Abraham Lincoln
Edward Djerejian
Ambassador to Syria 1988–91 Ronald Reagan [72]
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs 1991–93 George H. W. Bush
Ambassador to Israel 1993–94 Bill Clinton
William A. Stanton
Chargé d’affaires to Embassy Canberra, Australia 2005–06 George W. Bush [73]
Director of the American Institute in Taiwan
Deputy Chief of Mission to Embassy Seoul, Korea 		2009–12 Barack Obama
Nina Hachigian
Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)2014–17 Barack Obama [70]
Special Representative for Subnational Diplomacy2022– Joe Biden
Harry R. KamianDeputy Chief of Mission/Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission to the OSCE 2017–2020 [lower-alpha 3] Joe Biden [8] [9]

Others

United States Foreign Service

Other political figures

See also

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References

Notes
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Corwin's (partial) Armenian ancestry was reported by his close friend Samuel S. Cox, U.S. ambassador to Ottoman Turkey, [1] [2] and later cited by others. [3] [4] However, James H. Tashjian noted in 1981 that "Cox's testimony of Corwin's Armenian parentage has not been substantiated by family records or other evidence and that recently references to Corwin as an Armenian have all but ceased." [1]
  2. ↑ acting Assistant Secretary until September 19, 2022
  3. ↑ Chargé d’Affaires and Acting Permanent Representative during the first two years. [8]
Citations
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