Mark Takano
In Office
Reveal Party
Mark Takano is a Representative from California, born in Riverside in 1960. He graduated from La Sierra High School in 1979, earned a Harvard University degree in 1983, and later obtained an M.F.A. from the University of California, Riverside. Takano has been a teacher and served on the Riverside Community College district board of trustees from 1990 to 2012. He was elected to Congress in 2012 and currently serves as chair of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.