State Senate

Senator Tony Hwang represents Connecticut’s 28th Senatorial District, which includes the towns of Fairfield, Newtown, Easton, and Bethel. He lives in Fairfield with his wife, Grace, and their children, Christina and Peter.

The Fairfield resident and married father of two was born in Taiwan to parents that had escaped Communist China as teens and lived under martial law in Taiwan. Neither parent had attended college and both worked as blue collar laborers. “Without education, their prospects in Taiwan for economic success and future opportunities for their family were limited,” said Tony of his parents, “so my dad came, by himself, to the United States to seek better opportunities and The American Dream for us.”

Tony’s commitment to public service began in 2005 when a town educational issue motivated Tony to run for and win a position on the Fairfield Representative Town Meeting. In 2008, concerned about CT’s fiscal accountability and struggling environment for jobs and businesses, Tony ran for and won the State Representative seat representing the 134th district representing Fairfield and Trumbull. He quickly established a track record of what he termed “fiscal responsibility, moderate and responsible social views and an unwavering passion and commitment” to his community. In 2010 and 2012, Tony was re-elected again by double-digit margins with bipartisan voter support. In 2014, Tony became the first Asian-Pacific American State Senator in Connecticut history. As an Assistant Republican Leader in the Senate, Tony has worked hard with his colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and with his constituents, to created policies and programs that protect Connecticut’s most vulnerable residents and provide opportunity for all communities, and he has held a hard line when the Governor sought to take away their funding.

For more information, please visit tonyhwang.org.