The Democratic lawmaker battled cancer throughout the past legislative session.
BY NIGEL JAQUISS
Oregon Journalism Project
State Rep.
(D-East Portland) has died after months of battling cancer. She was 41.
Nguyễn first ran for the Oregon Legislature in 2022. That year, three other first-time Vietnamese American candidates won House seats, joining then-state Rep. Khanh Pham (D-Portland) to make up the largest group of Vietnamese American lawmakers in the country.
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