Matt Fong

Matt Fong

Matthew Kipling Fong (Chinese: 鄺傑靈; pinyin: Kuàng Jiélíng) (November 20, 1953–) is a Republican politician from California and former state treasurer.

Fong, the adopted son of former Democratic California Secretary of State March Fong Eu, graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1975 and from law school at the Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles in 1985. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force and practiced law from 1985 onward.

Fong served as Vice Chairman of the state Board of Equalization from 1990 to 1994 and as State Treasurer until 1998. In the U.S. Senate election, 1998, he challenged sitting California Senator Barbara Boxer unsuccessfully. Since then, he has returned to the practice of law and was appointed by President George W. Bush as the chairman of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Advisory Board. Fong is married with two children and lives in the Los Angeles area.