This article is the list of Armenian American politicians, officeholders and party chairpersons.

Bold indicates incumbent officeholders.

Note: persons are classified by chronological order

Federal government Cabinet officials NamePositionTook officeLeft officePresident(s) Secretary of the Treasury 23 July 1850 6 March 1853 Millard Fillmore Secretary of the Navy 1 September 1967 24 January 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson Assistant Attorney Generalfor the Internal Security Division 7 November 1970 March 1972 Richard Nixon Assistant Secretary of Commercefor Market Access and Compliance December 21, 2005 January 20, 2009 George W. Bush Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Statefor Energy Resources 7 September 2021 30 June 2023 Joe Biden Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energyin the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy September 2022 Joe Biden

Executive Office of the President Ken Khachigian, White House Director of Speechwriting, Reagan Administration Aram Bakshian, White House Director of Speechwriting, Reagan Administration (1981–83) Ike Hajinazarian, White House Regional Communications Director, Biden Administration (2021) Jeff Marootian, Special Assistant to the President for Climate and Science Agency Personnel, Biden Administration (2021–22) Jirair Ratevosian, Acting Chief of Staff of John N. Nkengasong, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy in 2022–23

Members of Congress Name Party State Years Senate Whig Ohio 1845–50 House of Representatives Whig Ohio 1830–401859–61 Republican New York 1953–65 Democratic Indiana 1977–82 Republican California 1979–91 Democratic California 1993–2025 Republican New York 1999–2007 Democratic California 2008–23 Democratic New York 2019–21

Federal Judicial Name Position Dates Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California 1985–2005 Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois 2003–2018

State government Governors Name State Party Years Ohio Whig 1840–42 California Republican 1983–91

Other state officials Name Party Position Years Republican California Attorney General 1979–83 Democratic Secretary of the State of Connecticut 1983–91 Democratic Oregon Commissioner of Labor 2008–19 Democratic Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development 2014–15 Democratic Middlesex County Sheriff, Massachusetts 2011–

State Judicial Name Position Years Justice of the New York Supreme Court 1969–81 Los Angeles County District Attorney 1982–84 Justice of the Supreme Court of California 1990–96 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California 1991–2015 Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court 2018– Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court 2018– Zaven V. SinanianJudge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court 2002–Kaye TertzagJudge of Wayne County Circuit Court1987–2004

Legislature

Lower Name Party State Years Republican Massachusetts 1959–1971 Republican California 1962–1967 Democratic California 1965–1974(speaker 1971–1974) Democratic Massachusetts 1967–1991(speaker 1985–1991) Republican New Jersey 1982–1996(speaker 1992–1996) Democratic California 1986–1996 Republican California 1994–1998 Republican California 1994–2000 Democratic Massachusetts 1995–2008 Democratic Massachusetts 1997–2011 Democratic California 2000–2004 Republican Illinois 2002–2009 Republican California 2002–2008 Democratic Oregon 2003–2007 Democratic California 2006–2010 Republican California 2010–2016 Republican Minnesota 2011–2013 Democratic Maine 2012–2020(speaker 2016–2020) Democratic California 2012–2022 Republican New Hampshire 2012– Republican New Hampshire 2012–2016 Democratic Rhode Island 2013– Republican New Hampshire 2015– Republican Massachusetts 2016– Democratic Maryland 2019– Democratic Michigan 2019–2022

Upper Name Party State Years Democratic New Jersey 1965–1967 Democratic California 1966–1974(majority leader 1971–1974) Republican California 1967–1979 Democratic California 1998–2006 Democratic Oregon 2007–2008 Republican California 1998–2006 Democratic California 2004–2012 Democratic South Carolina 2018–2025

Municipal government Mayors

Name City Years Waukegan, Illinois 1957–77 1985–89 Lodi, California 1958–59 1962–64 Phoenix, Arizona 1960–64 Peabody, Massachusetts 1978–2001 Lodi, California 1979–80 Waukegan, Illinois 1989–93 Kenosha, Wisconsin 1992–20082016–2024 Pasadena, California 1995–97 Warwick, Rhode Island 2000–18 Troy, New York 2004–12 Lodi, California 2009–10 2013–14 Visalia, California 2011–13 South Pasadena, California 2013–142018–19 Montebello, California 2014–15

Mayors of Glendale, California Name Years 1986–871990–911993–941997–98 2002–032005–06 2004–05 2007–082010–112015–162019–20 2014–152018–19 2017–18 2020–21 2022–23 2024-25

Other Paul Krekorian, Los Angeles City Council (2010—2022 Nina Hachigian, Deputy Mayor of International Affairs for Los Angeles (2017–2022) Adrin Nazarian, Los Angeles City Council (2024–) Amy Shuklian, District 3 member of Tulare County, California's Board of Supervisors (2016–present) Alek Bartrosouf, member of the Glendale, California's City Council (2026–present)

Foreign service Ambassadors

Name Position YearsPresident(s) Minister to Mexico 1861–64 Abraham Lincoln Ambassador to Syria 1988–91 Ronald Reagan Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs 1991–93 George H. W. Bush Ambassador to Israel 1993–94 Bill Clinton William A. Stanton Chargé d’affaires to Embassy Canberra, Australia 2005–06 George W. Bush Director of the American Institute in TaiwanDeputy Chief of Mission to Embassy Seoul, Korea 2009–12 Barack Obama Nina Hachigian Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2014–17 Barack Obama Special Representative for Subnational Diplomacy 2022– Joe Biden Deputy Chief of Mission/Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission to the OSCE 2017–2020 Joe Biden United States ambassador-designate to Norway 2025– Donald Trump

Others United States Foreign Service Leon Dominian, consul in Rome (1921), consul-general in Stuttgart (1930), first secretary of the U.S. legation at Montevideo, Uruguay Edward Alexander, deputy director for the Soviet Union and East Europe

Other political figures Barry Zorthian, diplomat and press spokesman during the Vietnam War Edward N. Costikyan, New York-based political personality Danny Tarkanian, Nevada-based politician and candidate Terry Phillips, non-partisan candidate for California's 23rd congressional district in 2012 Scott Ashjian David Krikorian Paul Paul Simon Marootian Ralph Moradian Haiganush R. Bedrosian Robert Hagopian, Saugus, Massachusetts Town 1974 Jirair Ratevosian, candidate, acting chief of staff to the United States Global AIDS Coordinator (2022–23)

See also List of Armenian Americans List of Jewish American politicians

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