This article is the list of Armenian American politicians, officeholders and party chairpersons.
Bold indicates incumbent officeholders.
Note: persons are classified by chronological order
Name | Position | Took office | Left office | President(s) | Ref | |
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Thomas Corwin [a] | Secretary of the Treasury | 23 July 1850 | 6 March 1853 | Millard Fillmore | ||
Paul Ignatius | Secretary of the Navy | 1 September 1967 | 24 January 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson | [5] | |
Robert Mardian | Assistant Attorney General for the Internal Security Division | 7 November 1970 | March 1972 | Richard Nixon | [6] [7] | |
Harry R. Kamian | Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources | 7 September 2021 | 30 June 2023 [b] | 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] | ||
Name | Party | State | Years | Ref | |
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Senate | |||||
Thomas Corwin [a] | Whig | Ohio | 1845–50 | ||
House of Representatives | |||||
Thomas Corwin [a] | Whig | Ohio | 1830–40 1859–61 | ||
Steven Derounian | Republican | New York | 1953–65 | ||
Adam Benjamin Jr. | Democratic | Indiana | 1977–82 | ||
Chip Pashayan | Republican | California | 1979–91 | ||
Anna Eshoo | Democratic | California | 1993–2025 | ||
John E. Sweeney | Republican | New York | 1999–2007 | ||
Jackie Speier | Democratic | California | 2008–23 | ||
Anthony Brindisi | Democratic | New York | 2019–21 | ||
Name | Position | Dates | Ref |
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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] |
Name | State | Party | Years | Ref | |
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Thomas Corwin [a] | Ohio | Whig | 1840–42 | ||
George Deukmejian | California | Republican | 1983–91 |
Name | Party | Position | Years | Ref | |
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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, Massachusetts | 2011– | [36] | |
Name | Position | Years | Ref |
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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 Amerian | Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court | 2018– | [39] |
Armenui Ashvanian | Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court | 2018– | [39] [40] |
Zaven V. Sinanian | Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court | 2002– | |
Kaye Tertzag | Judge of Wayne County Circuit Court | 1987–2004 |
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Name | Position | Years | President(s) | Ref | |
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Thomas Corwin [a] | 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 Diplomacy | 2022– | Joe Biden | |||
Harry R. Kamian | Deputy Chief of Mission/Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission to the OSCE | 2017–2020 [c] | Joe Biden | [8] [9] | |
Michael E. Kavoukjian | United States ambassador to Norway | 2025– | Donald Trump | [74] [75] | |
...Secretary of the Treasury in America—I mean Governor Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, of Armenian-Hungarian descent...
The Armenians have not been less prominent in the United States: witness the late Governor Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, also at one time Secretary of the United States Treasury...
Thomas Corwin, a Governor of Ohio and the Secretary of the Treasury prior to the Civil War, belonged to another Armenian family that came to America in the colonial days as refugees from Hungary.
His father was an Armenian refugee from what had been the Ottoman Empire...
Mardian was Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Internal Security Division of the Department of Justice from 7 November 1970 until March 1972.
Harry was a member of St. Vartan Armenian Apostolic Church of Oakland [...] his children ... Harry (Robin) Kamian
My great grandparents came to this country from Armenia
Director, White House Office of Speechwriting and Deputy Assistant to the President from November 17, 1981, until September 1983
joined the Ronald Reagan White House as director of the speechwriting team
Jirair Ratevosian will serve as Acting Chief of Staff.
A son of immigrants from Lebanon and Armenia...
Steven Boghos Derounian was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, to Armenian parents who had fled persecution at the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
...other prominent Armenians taking part in the tribute were Rep. Charles (Chip) Pashayan (R-Calif.), George Keverian, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and former U.S. representative to the United Nations Set Momjian...
Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), the only Armenian-Assyrian Member of Congress...
2. I am of Irish and Armenian descent.
Congresswoman Jackie Speier, a co-chair of the House Armenian Issues Caucus and one of only three members of Congress of Armenian heritage...
...as 1 of 3 members of Congress of Armenian descent...
As one of three members of Congress of Armenian descent, I stood with the Armenian community...
He is the first Armenian-American to have served as a Federal Judge in the history of the United States.
The Honorable Samuel Der-Yeghiayan is the first Armenian immigrant...
Born in Aleppo, Syria, to Armenian parents, Judge Der-Yeghiayan...
Much has been made of the fact that Philibosian and Deukmejian share an Armenian heritage...
...Moretti was a superb legislative leader. He was the son of immigrant parents: his father was an Italian-born chef, his mother Armenian.
His [Moretti's] father was born in Italy, and his mother was of Armenian descent.
My grandparents survived the Armenian Genocide.
...former State Representative Ruth Munson...
Her father immigrated from India; her maternal grandparents fled the Armenian genocide.
With eight great-grandparents who survived the Armenian Genocide of 1915, she and her family have been very active in Rhode Island's Armenian community.
Harpootlian, a South Carolina state senator and former Democratic party chair who is also of Armenian descent...
...state Democratic Party chairman Dick Harpootlian, also of Armenian descent.
Mardian, the son of Armenian immigrants...
Mayor Antaramian representing the Armenian population.
She served as Mayor for the 2013–2014 term. [...] When she was just 10 years old, Dr. Khubesrian and her family emigrated from Armenia.
He briefly introduced himself as the son of an Armenian Genocide survivor and noted that his native language is Armenian.
Born in 1920 in New York City of Armenian parents [...] During one tour in Washington, he was appointed deputy director for the Soviet Union and East Europe...
His father, Mihran, an Armenian immigrant from Turkey, was a rug merchant.
I am a proud American with diverse roots ranging from Armenian to English, Irish and Scottish descent.
With his Greek-Armenian heritage...