page_title: List of Brown University people
section_title: State legislators
hierarchical_section_title: List of Brown University people / Notable alumni and leaders of Brown / Government, law and public policy / Legislators / State legislators
caption_attribution_description: English: Minnesota state senator Mee Moua (Mim Muas), the highest serving Hmong American politician, speaks at a rally on Oct. 30, 2008 in support of Barack Obama, Al Franken and other Minnesota Democratic candidates. Hmoob: Mim Muas
context_page_description: The following is a partial list of notable Brown people, known as Brunonians. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Brown University and Pembroke College, the former women's college of Brown.
context_section_description: Sullivan Ballou – member of Rhode Island House of Representatives; Major in Rhode Island militia; killed at First Battle of Bull Run; writer of the "Dear Sarah" letter featured prominently in the Ken Burns documentary The Civil War
  Antonio F. D. Cabral – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1990–present)
  Dan Greenberg (A.B. 1988) – member of the Arkansas General Assembly (2006–present)
  Elijah Hamlin – member of the Maine Legislature and two-time candidate for Governor of Maine
  Steve Harrison (1990) – member of the West Virginia State Senate (2003–2006) and the West Virginia House of Delegates (1993–2002)
  Wingate Hayes (1844) – Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1859 to 1860
  Ratcliffe Hicks (1864) – member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1866-1895) and benefactor of the University of Connecticut
  Walter M. D. Kern (born 1937), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1978 to 1990, where he represented the 40th Legislative District.
  Mee Moua (1992) – Minnesota State Senator, first elected Hmong-American politician
  Mark Strama (1990) – member of the Texas House of Representatives
  Austin Volk – member of the New Jersey General Assembly and mayor of Englewood, New Jersey
  J. Aaron Regunberg – member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and 2018 Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island
caption: Mee Moua
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