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Wu was born in Taiwan, and moved to the United States with his family in 1961. He received a bachelor of science degree from Stanford University in 1977 and attended medical school at Harvard UniversityHarvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. It was founded on September 8, 1636 by a vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, making it the oldest post-secondary s. He received a law degree from YaleYale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third oldest American collegiate institution (or fourth, if St. John's College, Annapolis is included) and one of the most prestigious in the world. The Univer in 1982.
Prior to being elected a US Representative he served as a clerk for a federal judge and co-founded a law firm, Cohen & Wu, which primarily served the high tech sector in Oregon's " Silicon ForestThe Silicon Forest is a nickname for the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon. Like the Silicon Valley, it refers to the cluster of high tech companies present there. In Portland, these companies specialize in output devices like displays and printers sem."
Wu, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998, replacing fellow Democrat Elizabeth Furse , and began serving in 1999 with the 106th Congress . He serves on the Education and the Workforce, and Science committees. Wu was a delegate for Oregon at the 2000 Democratic National ConventionPresident Jimmy Carter addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. The Democratic National Convention is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years administered by the Democratic National Committee of the United.
His wife's name is Michelle.
In the 2004 electionElections to the 109th United States House of Representatives were held on November 2, 2004. The House of Representatives has 435 seats; in the 108th Congress, Republicans held 227 seats, and Democrats held 205. As a consequence of this election, the 109t, he was challenged by Goli AmeriGoli Ameri (in Persian: ) is a Republican Iranian-American businesswoman who ran for a seat in the U. House of Representatives from Oregon. She was born in 1956 in Tehran, Iran as Goli Yazdi. Life She immigrated to the United States when she was 17, in or, a Republican IranianIran ( Persian: ) is a Middle Eastern country located in southwestern Asia that until 1935 was referred to in the West as Persia''. It borders Pakistan (909km of border) and Afghanistan (936km) to the east, Turkmenistan (1000km) to the northeast, the Casp-American. On October 12, 2004, Congressman Wu admitted that he had been disciplined for sexual misconduct by Stanford officials while a student at the school in 1976. Ameri chose to exploit the issue heavily in her campaign, a decision that many cited as a factor in her surprising double-digit loss.
Many believe that Wu will face a strong Democratic challenger in the 2006 primary.