1. John Lim was born on December 23,1935 and is a South Korean-born American politician from the state of Oregon.
15 Facts About John Lim
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John Lim has served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly and was the Oregon State Senate Majority Leader in 1995.
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John Lim has unsuccessfully run for the US Senate and for the Republican nomination for Governor of Oregon.
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John Lim was married in 1963 and graduated from Seoul Theological College in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion.
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John Lim emigrated to the United States in 1966, penniless.
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John Lim later had plans to become a Catholic priest.
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John Lim eventually decided against this as it would have required him to abandon his Protestant heritage.
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John Lim was elected to the 11th district of the Oregon State Senate in 1992.
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John Lim served as Majority Leader in 1995 and was re-elected in 1996.
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John Lim was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in 1998, losing to incumbent Democrat Ron Wyden.
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In 2004, John Lim was elected State Representative of District 50.
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John Lim was re-elected to that office in 2006, serving in the 73rd Oregon Legislative Assembly and the 74th Oregon Legislative Assembly.
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John Lim lost his bid for re-election to the Oregon House in the 2008 general election.
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John Lim was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Oregon governor in 2010.
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John Lim came in third out of nine, behind the primary winner Chris Dudley and second-place finisher Allen Alley.