Gary Faye Locke (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician and diplomat serving as the interim president of
Bellevue College
Bellevue College (BC) is a public college in Bellevue, Washington, United States. It is the largest of the 34 institutions that make up the Washington Community and Technical Colleges system and the third-largest institution of higher educatio ...
, the largest of the institutions that make up the
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system.
Locke served as the
21st governor of Washington (1997–2005), the 5th
King County Executive
The King County Executive is the highest elected official representing the government of King County, Washington. The post was established with the implementation of the Home Rule Charter for King County on November 5, 1968. Previously the powers o ...
(1994–1997), the 10th
United States ambassador to China
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(2011–2014), and the
United States Secretary of Commerce
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(2009–2011).
Locke is the first Chinese American
governor
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as well as the first Asian American governor in the
continental United States
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. He was also the first Chinese American to serve as U.S. ambassador to China.
Early life
Gary Locke was born on January 21, 1950, in
Seattle, Washington
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, and spent his early years living in the
Yesler Terrace public
housing project
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. A third-generation Chinese American with paternal ancestry from Jilong village,
Taishan __NOTOC__
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*Mount Tai or Taishan (), Shandong, China
*Taishan District, Tai'an (), named after the Mount Tai, a district in Tai'an, Shandong, China
*Taishan, Guangdong (), a county-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China
**Gre ...
,
Guangdong
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,
China
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, Locke is the second of five children of James Locke, who served as a
staff sergeant
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History of title
In origin, certain senior sergeants were assigned to administrative, supervi ...
in the
U.S. Fifth Armored Division during
World War II
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. James Locke's wife, Julie, is from
Hong Kong
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, which at that time was a
British Crown Colony
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. His paternal grandfather left China in the 1890s and moved to the United States, where he worked as a
houseboy
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in
Olympia, Washington
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European ...
, in exchange for
English
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* English people
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lessons. Locke did not learn to speak English until he was five years old and entered kindergarten.
Locke graduated with honors from Seattle's
Franklin High School in 1968. He achieved
Eagle Scout
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rank and received the
Distinguished Eagle Scout Award
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from the
Boy Scouts of America
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.
Through a combination of part-time jobs, financial aid, and scholarships, Locke attended
Yale University
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, graduating with a
Bachelor of Arts
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in
political science
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in 1972.
He received his
Juris Doctor
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and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
from
Boston University School of Law
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in 1975.
Career
Washington representative
In 1982, Locke was elected from a South Seattle district to the
Washington House of Representatives
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, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected
King County
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's Executive, defeating incumbent
liberal Republican Tim Hill.
Governor of Washington
In 1996, Locke won the
Democratic primary and general election for governor of Washington, becoming the first Chinese American governor in United States history. His political committee was fined $2,500 by regulators in 1997 after admitting to state campaign finance law violations.
Locke faced criticism from fellow Democrats for embracing the
Republican Party
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*Republican Party (Liberia)
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's "no-new-taxes" approach to Washington's budget woes during and after the 2001 economic turmoil. Among his spending-reduction proposals were laying off thousands of state employees; reducing health coverage; freezing most state employees' pay; and cutting funding for nursing homes and programs for the
developmentally disabled
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. In his final budget, Locke suspended two voter-passed school initiatives and cut state education funding. Supported by the state's political left, former
Washington Supreme Court
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Washington commonly refers to:
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Justice
Phil Talmadge
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announced his plans to challenge Locke in the 2000 Democratic primary, but Talmadge ended his campaign early for health reasons; Locke
won reelection in 2000.
On the national stage, Democrats saw Locke as a possible vice-presidential choice. In 1997, he was a guest at the
State of the Union address
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.
Locke was chosen to give his party's response to
George W. Bush
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's
2003 State of the Union Address
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.
In a surprise move, Locke announced in July 2003 that he would not seek a third term,
saying, "Despite my deep love of our state, I want to devote more time to my family."
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, a columnist at the ''
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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The newspaper was foun ...
'', suggested that racist slurs, insults, and threats that Locke and his family received, especially after his rebuttal to Bush's State of the Union address, may have played a role in Locke's decision to leave office after two terms.
The governor's office received hundreds of threatening letters and emails; others threatened to kill his children.
[ His official portrait, painted by ]Michele Rushworth
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on January 4, 2006.
After leaving office, Locke joined the Seattle office of international law firm Davis Wright Tremaine
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LLP
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, in their China and governmental-relations practice groups. During the leadup to the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, Locke was Washington co-chairman of Hillary Clinton
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's campaign
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.
Secretary of Commerce
On December 4, 2008, the Associated Press
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reported that Locke was a potential candidate for Secretary of the Interior Secretary of the Interior may refer to:
* Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)
* Interior Secretary of Pakistan
* Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (Philippines)
* United States Secretary of the Interior
See also
*Interior ministry ...
in then-President-elect Barack Obama
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's cabinet. Eventually, then-Colorado
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Senator Ken Salazar
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was nominated for that position instead.
On February 25, 2009, Locke was announced as Obama's choice for Secretary of Commerce
The United States secretary of commerce (SecCom) is the head of the United States Department of Commerce. The secretary serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all matters relating to commerce. The secretary rep ...
, and his nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate by unanimous consent on March 24. Locke was sworn in March 26 by District Judge Richard A. Jones
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, and by Obama on May 1. Locke was the first Chinese American Secretary of Commerce, and one of three Asian Americans in Obama's cabinet, joining Secretary of Energy
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Steven Chu
Steven Chu[Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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Eric Shinseki
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. ''Politico
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'' reported Locke was a popular cabinet member among both businesses and the executive branch. A declaration of assets made in March 2011 showed Locke to be the sixth-richest official in the U.S. executive branch.
Ambassador to China
Following the resignation of Jon Huntsman Jr.
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, Obama nominated Locke to serve as United States Ambassador to China
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. The Senate confirmed Locke unanimously on July 27, 2011; Locke resigned as Secretary of Commerce on August 1.
A photo of Locke carrying his own knapsack and ordering his own coffee at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport went viral in China on the Sina Weibo
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social network
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, with many commentators approving of his humble, low-key style. At his first news conference after arrival in Beijing, Locke pledged to promote bilateral cooperation and understanding between the two countries.
Early in Locke's ambassadorship, Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng
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escaped from house arrest and sought refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing
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in April 2012. On May 2, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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demanded an apology from the U.S. for its role in the incident. In an editorial on May 4, ''Beijing Daily
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'' questioned Locke's motives by taking Chen in, describing Chen as "a tool and a pawn for American politicians to blacken China."
In late November 2013, Locke announced that he would step down as ambassador to spend more time with his family in Seattle. In an analysis of his ambassadorship, Sun Zhe, a professor at Tsinghua University
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in Beijing
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, said, "It is not an easy job to be the American ambassador to China. Gary Locke is not a shining star, but a simple and unadorned ambassador." Shen Dingli, dean of the international studies department at Fudan University
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in Shanghai
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, largely concurred, commenting that Locke "showed us how a U.S. minister-level official behaves by taking economy-class flights" but "caused a twist" when he allowed Chen refuge in the U.S. embassy. Max Baucus
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, a former United States Senator
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from Montana
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, was Obama's nominee to replace Locke and was confirmed by the Senate 96–0; Vice President Joe Biden administered the oath of office
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on February 21, 2014.
Post-Ambassador
On February 17, 2016, Locke joined the board of AMC Theatres
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.
On May 31, 2016, Locke joined the board of the Seattle-based global health nonprofit PATH
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* Desire p ...
.
Locke has been a major proponent of affirmative action in Washington State. He publicly endorsed I-1000 in the 2019 Washington State general election. Those efforts were overturned by a majority of voters in the state of Washington in 2019.
In 2020, Locke was featured in a Trump reelection ad, portraying him with Joe Biden and falsely suggesting he was an official of the Chinese Communist Party
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.
Locke was named the interim president of Bellevue College
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in May 2020, following the resignation of the college's president due to a controversial defacement of a campus mural.
In March 2021, local news media speculated that Locke could run for Seattle mayor, despite residing on the Eastside, outside of Seattle city limits. Locke did not run, endorsing Bruce Harrell
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, who was elected.
Personal life
Locke's first marriage, to a law school classmate, ended with a divorce in the 1970s. On October 15, 1994, Locke married Mona Lee, a television reporter for the NBC
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affiliate KING 5 television in Seattle and former Miss Asian America
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15 years his junior. They divorced in 2015.
The Lockes have three children: Emily Nicole (b. March 1997), Dylan James (b. March 1999), and Madeline Lee (b. November 2004). He is a Protestant.
Regarding his ethnicity and being the only person of Chinese descent to have served as an ambassador to China, he said, "I’m proud of my Chinese heritage. I’m proud of the great contributions that China has made to world civilization over thousands of years. But I’m thoroughly American. I’m proud of the great values that America has brought to the entire world and all that America stands for."
Political views
When asked if there is place for Asian Americans in politics, Locke had this to say:
"I think our native cultures have emphasized respect for our elders, care of our elders, but also focusing on education. But my overall response is that Asian Americans are part and parcel of the great success of America. Our grandparents came over in the 1800s to work in the railroads, work the lumber camp
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s, goldmines, worked in the canneries, farmland that most people thought could never raise a crop, worked as merchants in cities that were just emerging. They fought in world wars, died for our freedoms and our liberties. Asian Americans have given our blood, sweat and tears to the communities and to this country. There's a prosperity that we on the west coast enjoy. So much of the prosperity and progress of the western states is because of the blood, sweat and tears of Asian Americans. From doing the dirty work to fighting in our world wars and contributing to our society now as doctors, researchers, people in high tech, as innovators, in all different professions. We have every right, indeed a responsibility, to help set the policies that will move our communities and our nation forward."
See also
* History of Chinese Americans in Seattle
Greater Seattle has had a Chinese American community almost since its founding in 1851. Chinese workers arriving in the 1860s were welcomed, because the Seattle area was sparsely settled and workers were needed; within a few decades, however, ne ...
References
External links
Ambassador Gary Locke
at the United States Department of Commerce
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* Gary Locke
"Trends and Challenges of China's Economic and Technology Rise,"
Keynote Address to China 2.0 Conference, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Oct. 24, 2013. —Video.
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