"Korean American Dan Go Wins U.S. House Seat" [U.S. Midterm Elections: Day of Reckoning]

Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional District

Dan Go (Korean name: Go Wonyoung), Democratic candidate. Dan Go's official campaign website.

Dan Go (Korean name: Go Wonyoung), a Korean American Democratic candidate, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional District in the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 3 (local time).

The Associated Press reported that day that Go had won the election for the House seat in Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional District.

Earlier, at 8 p.m. that day, immediately after polls closed, political news outlet The Hill cited election forecasting organization Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) in projecting Go’s victory. Go defeated Republican candidate Micah Jones, an Army veteran and lawyer, and will succeed Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton in the district.

During the Biden Administration, Go served as a Deputy Assistant to the President and deputy director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Earlier, he was chief of staff to former Labor Secretary Marty Walsh when Walsh served as mayor of Boston, and also served as Walsh’s chief of staff at the Department of Labor during the Biden Administration.

Go, who lost in the 2018 Democratic House primary, advanced through a fiercely contested primary this time. He later received support from prominent Democrats, including former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former Secretary Walsh.

Go’s father, who is of the Jeju Go clan, is Howard Koh, a Harvard professor of public health who served as an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama Administration. His grandfather was Dr. Koh Kwang-lim, and his uncle is Harold Hongju Koh, a former assistant secretary of state.

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