Tackey Chan(陳德基) is an American

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serving in the

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. He is a Quincy resident and a member of the

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. He and Donald Wong were the first Asian-Americans elected to the

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. Chan was born and raised in the Wollaston section of Quincy. He attended the

New England School of Law New England Law , Boston (formerly New England School of Law) is a private law school in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded as Portia School of Law in 1908 and is located in downtown Boston near the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Fina ...

.Kimberly Atkins, "A Dream of Building Bridges." Boston Globe, February 21, 2002, p. S1. He first won election to the state legislature in the fall of 2010 and took office in the spring of 2011. He ran again in 2012, 2014, and 2016, winning each time unopposed.

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Living people Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Politicians from Quincy, Massachusetts American politicians of Chinese descent 21st-century American politicians 1973 births Asian-American people in Massachusetts politics {{Massachusetts-MARepresentative-stub

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