birth_place birth_date spouse article_title name occupation
25px saigon , south vietnam 5 may 1966 jon hong tran
 hong thi tran attorney
hong tran

hong thi tran -lrb- born may 5 , 1966 -rrb- was a candidate in the washington democratic party primary election for the united states senate in 2006 , challenging incumbent maria cantwell .
tran received more than five percent of the democratic vote , and her differing views from those of maria cantwell -lrb- on the iraq war in particular -rrb- drew the attention of the news media and local progressives .
tran is the first vietnamese american in the state to run for u.s. senate , and possibly the first in the country to do so , according to carol vu of the northwest asian weekly , who considered tran 's campaign to be `` historic . ''
