district governor predecessor successor children state_assembly birth_place party office birth_date order term_start spouse article_title term_end name
15th jerry brown -lrb- 1975-1983 -rrb- jerry brown nicholas c. petris tony miller s. floyd mori matt fong california oakdale , california , u.s. democrat secretary of state of california 29 march 1922 25th 1975 1967 henry eu march fong eu
 1994 1974 march fong eu 余江月桂
march fong eu

march kong fong eu -lrb- ; born march 29 , 1922 -rrb- is an american politician of the democratic party .
fong earned a bachelor of science in dentistry from the university of california , berkeley in 1943 and a master of arts from mills college .
she earned a ed.d. from the stanford graduate school of education in 1954 .
in 1966 fong was elected to the california state assembly from the 15th district , representing oakland and castro valley .
she served four terms .
fong eu led the campaign to ban pay toilets , arguing that they discriminated against women since urinals were free .
eu was elected secretary of state of california in 1974 , becoming the first asian american woman ever elected to a state constitutional office in the united states .
eu was the only woman to serve as california secretary of state until 2006 , when voters elected debra bowen .
eu was elected secretary of state five times .
in 1976 , she became the first woman to serve as governor of california , serving as acting governor while jerry brown was away .
in 1978 she won every county in the state , even heavily republican orange county , making her one of only four democrats to win the county in a statewide race in the last half century .
in 1987 eu was a candidate for the democratic nomination for the u.s. senate , running against leo mccarthy for the right to challenge the republican incumbent , pete wilson .
amid poor fund-raising totals and her husband 's unwillingness to release details of his business interests , eu dropped out later that year .
president bill clinton appointed eu as united states ambassador to the federated states of micronesia in 1994 .
she served in that post until 1996 .
in 2002 , fong ran again for secretary of state , but narrowly lost in the democratic primary to kevin shelley , who went on to win the election .
in 2003 she filed a statement of intention to run for governor of california in the gubernatorial recall election of gray davis , but later withdrew .
fong is a democrat , while her adopted son , matt fong was a republican activist who served as california state treasurer for a four-year term that began january 1995 .
she argued that pay toilets discriminated against women because men could use urinals for free whereas women always had to pay a dime for a toilet stall in places where payment was mandatory .
eu lives in both sacramento and singapore ; she lives with her second husband henry eu , a multimillionaire industrialist .
