Tan D. Nguyen

Who is Tan D. Nguyen?

Tan Duc Nguyen was a two-time candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in California. In 2004, he sought the Democratic Party nomination to run against incumbent Republican Dana Rohrabacher in California's 46th congressional district. In 2006, he ran as a Republican against incumbent Democrat Loretta Sanchez in California's 47th congressional district.

On February 14, 2011, Nguyen was sentenced by United States District Judge David O. Carter to 366 days in federal prison followed by six months in a halfway house for lying to investigators about his knowledge of a letter to intimidate Latino voters from voting in his 2006 race.

Nguyen was born Nguyễn Đức Tân in Da Nang, South Vietnam, in 1973. In 1981, six years after the Fall of Saigon, he and his family left Vietnam by boat and emigrated to the United States. They settled in California, where Nguyen attended the University of California, Los Angeles. He later graduated from the University of Minnesota with a baccalaureate and emphases on business-economics, biochemistry, and Asian studies. Nguyen married Hanh Lam and settled in southern California, working for American Express.