Laura Richardson
Laura Richardson is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for Californias 37th congressional district from 2007 to 2013. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Richardson is a lifelong resident of Southern California. She was born in Los Angeles and currently calls Long Beach home. She was raised by a single mother after her parents divorced when she was two. Her father belonged to the Teamsters labor union. Her father was black and her mother was white. Richardson has said that racism against their mixedrace family was what got me since the age of about six of wanting to be a public servant.
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