Dalip Singh Saund

Wednesday, January 02, 1957

Dalip Singh Saund was born in India in 1899 and immigrated to the United States in 1920 to study. Saund earned a master's degree and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Saund became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1949 and was the first Indian American and Asian American politician elected to the United States Congress. In 1956, Saund was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives in California taking office in 1957.