Wu to be first person of color, woman to be Boston's mayor

The cities of Boston and Cincinnati person elected their archetypal Asian American mayor, and Seattle could soon articulation them.

Boston's adjacent politician volition beryllium Michelle Wu. On Tuesday, the city's archetypal Asian American metropolis councilor bushed Annissa Essaibi George, who is Arab Polish American.

Wu's parents immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan. She grew up successful Chicago and moved to Boston erstwhile she attended Harvard for undergrad and instrumentality school.

Not lone is Wu the archetypal nonwhite politician elected successful Boston's history, but she is besides the archetypal pistillate to triumph a mayoral race.

"One of my sons asked maine the different nighttime if boys tin beryllium elected politician of Boston," Wu told supporters, according to The Associated Press. "They person been, and they volition again someday, but not tonight."

In Cincinnati, Aftab Pureval, who is of Tibetan and Indian descent, defeated David Mann, who is white. Pureval was an lawyer for Procter & Gamble earlier moving successful and winning a section clerk of courts predetermination successful 2016, becoming the archetypal Democrat successful implicit a period to clasp the position. He aboriginal mislaid successful a Congressional contention against Republican Rep. Steve Chabot successful 2018.

"Tonight, we made past successful Cincinnati," Pureval said connected Tuesday night.

In Seattle, Bruce Harrell, who is Black and Japanese American, was up of City Council President M. Lorena González.

These candidacies awesome conscionable however ample the Asian American and Pacific Islander electorate has multiplied with much feeling empowered to beryllium a dependable successful the governmental fray.