Hung Cao
Sign in to saveHung Cao is an American politician and former military officer who has served as the acting United States secretary of the Navy since April 22, 2026, and as the 35th United States under secretary of the Navy since 2025, having served in the branch from 1989 to 2021. He was a Republican candidate for U.S. Representative in Virginia's 10th congressional district in 2022, and the party's nominee for the state's 2024 U.S. Senate election, losing to Jennifer Wexton and Tim Kaine respectively.
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- Born
- 1971-08-03
- Works
- 5
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- Call Me an American : Refugee to Patriot
- Call Me an American
- Cutting-Edge Technologies in Biological Sensing and Analysis
- Big Data Intelligence and Computing
- Interfacing Bioelectronics and Biomedical Sensing
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- Born
- 3 August 1971
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Occupation
- author
- Position held
- United States Secretary of the Navy
- Educated at
- United States Naval Academy
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Military branch
- United States Navy
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1971 births21st-century American naval officers21st-century Virginia politiciansAmerican military personnel of Asian descentAmerican politicians of Vietnamese descentAsian-American people in Virginia politicsAsian conservatism in the United StatesCandidates in the 2022 United States House of Representatives electionsCandidates in the 2024 United States Senate electionsLiving peopleNaval Postgraduate School alumni