1. Michael K Woo was born on October 8,1951 and is an American politician and academic who was the dean of the College of Environmental Design at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
16 Facts About Michael Woo
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Michael Woo went to Alhambra High School, and at the age of sixteen he attended summer classes at California State College at Los Angeles under a special program for gifted students.
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Young Michael Woo chose to attend the University of California, Santa Cruz, he said, to get away from his family and into an unstructured environment.
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Michael Woo graduated with honors in 1973 and earned his master's degree in city planning two years later from the University of California, Berkeley, with a thesis on the origins of regional government in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Wilbur and his father, David Kitman Michael Woo, began a produce business in a spot at the Ninth Street Market vacated by a Japanese man who was interned during the Second World War.
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Michael Woo studied banking and later became a vice-president of the organization.
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Michael Woo joined the staff of David Roberti after the latter was elected to the California State Senate in 1973.
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Michael Woo took a leave in December 1980 to run for the City Council the next year, and he moved from Alhambra to Silver Lake to do so.
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Michael Woo previously taught at Harvard University and University of California, Los Angeles.
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Michael Woo was dean of the College of Environmental Design at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, retiring in 2019.
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Michael Woo first ran for District 13 on the council in 1981, against incumbent Peggy Stevenson.
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Michael Woo denied they were meant to raise racial questions but simply to point up Woo's "ultraliberal" support.
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The 1985 race in District 13, again between Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson and Michael Woo, was notoriously expensive and cost a reported one million dollars.
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Michael Woo was victorious in the race, with 16,417 votes to Stevenson's 12,052.
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Michael Woo left his council seat in 1993 to run for mayor that year against Richard Riordan.
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Michael Woo was endorsed by Bill Clinton, who was running for president at the time.