Fresh off the vote

IN 1955, Peter Aduja became the first Filipino American to be voted into office as a member of the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives, a historical event first reported on the Honolulu Star Bulletin by Richard Borreca on Feb. 22, 2007.

Four hundred years earlier, Filipino seafarers got off the bigger boats of the Manila Galleon Trade era, landing in Morro Bay, California. (https://www.portlandoregon.gov/article/593821).