Matt Fong

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30^th California State Treasurer
Matt Fong

In office 1995 – 1999
Preceded by	Kathleen Brown
Succeeded by	Phil Angelides

Born	November 20, 1953 (1953-11-20) (age 54)
Political party	Republican
Residence	Sacramento, California

Matthew Kip Ling Fong^[1] (Chinese: 鄺傑靈; pinyin: Kuàng Jiélíng) (b. November 20, 1953 in Alameda County, California) is a Republican political leader from California and former state Treasurer. He is one of the leading Asian Pacific American Republican leaders in the United States.

Fong, the son of former Democratic California Secretary of State March Fong Eu, graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1975, Pepperdine University MBA in 1982 and from law school at the Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles in 1985. He retired from his AF Reserve Pentagon assignment serving as an adviser to the Secretariat of the Air Force on budget and finance with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserve.

Fong was elect to the state Board of Equalization and served as its Vice-Chairman from 1990 to 1994 He was next elected asState Treasurer to a four year term that began January 1995. In the U.S. Senate election of 1998, he unsuccessfully challenged incumbent California Senator Barbara Boxer.

He is President of the Strategic Advisory Group providing counsel to CEOs and senior executives on strategy and business development. Fong is an independent director of Trust Company of the West's complex of mutual funds. He also serves on two technology start-up companies' board of directors: one dealing with earthquake detection devices and the other involved with energy saving devices.

President George W. Bush appointed Fong as the chairman of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Advisory Board. Since 1992, he has also served as a Regent for Pepperdine University, and as Vice Chairman of its investment committee.

He is married with two children and lives in the Los Angeles area.

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Political offices
Preceded by Kathleen Brown	California State Treasurer 1995–1999	Succeeded by Phil Angelides

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