List of American politicians of Armenian descent

This article is the list of Armenian American politicians, officeholders and party chairpersons.

Bold indicates incumbent officeholders.

Note: persons are classified by chronological order

Name	Position	Took office	Left office		Ref
Thomas Corwin^[a]	Secretary of the Treasury	23 July 1850	6 March 1853	Millard Fillmore
Paul Ignatius	Secretary of the Navy	1 September 1967	24 January 1969	Lyndon B. Johnson	^[5]
Robert Mardian	Assistant Attorney General for the Internal Security Division	7 November 1970	March 1972	Richard Nixon	^[6]^[7]
David Bohigian	Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Market Access and Compliance	December 21, 2005	January 20, 2009	George W. Bush	^[8]
Harry R. Kamian	Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources	7 September 2021	30 June 2023^[b]	Joe Biden	^[9]^[10]
Jeff Marootian	Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy	September 2022		Joe Biden	^[11]^[12]

Name		State	Years	Ref
Senate
Thomas Corwin^[a]	Whig	Ohio	1845–50
House of Representatives
Thomas Corwin^[a]	Whig	Ohio	1830–40 1859–61
Steven Derounian	Republican	New York	1953–65	^[22]^[23]
Adam Benjamin Jr.	Democratic	Indiana	1977–82	^[22]
Chip Pashayan	Republican	California	1979–91	^[22]^[24]
Anna Eshoo	Democratic	California	1993–2025	^[22]^[25]
John E. Sweeney	Republican	New York	1999–2007	^[22]^[26]
Jackie Speier	Democratic	California	2008–23	^[22]^[27]
Anthony Brindisi	Democratic	New York	2019–21	^[28]^[29]

Name	Position	Dates	Ref
Dickran Tevrizian	Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California	1985–2005	^[30]
Samuel Der-Yeghiayan	Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois	2003–2018	^[31]^[32]

Name	State	Party		Years	Ref
Thomas Corwin^[a]	Ohio		Whig	1840–42
George Deukmejian	California		Republican	1983–91	^[33]

Name		Position	Years	Ref
George Deukmejian	Republican	California Attorney General	1979–83	^[33]
Julia Tashjian	Democratic	Secretary of the State of Connecticut	1983–91	^[34]^[22]
Brad Avakian	Democratic	Oregon Commissioner of Labor	2008–19	^[35]
Rachel Kaprielian	Democratic	Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development	2014–15	^[36]
Peter Koutoujian	Democratic	Middlesex County Sheriff, Massachusetts	2011–	^[37]

Federal government

Name	Position	Years	Ref
Steven Derounian	Justice of the New York Supreme Court	1969–81	^[22]^[23]
Robert Philibosian	Los Angeles County District Attorney	1982–84	^[38]^[39]
Armand Arabian	Justice of the Supreme Court of California	1990–96	^[22]
Marvin R. Baxter	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California	1991–2015	^[22]
Michael Amerian	Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court	2018–	^[40]
Armenui Ashvanian	Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court	2018–	^[40]^[41]
Zaven V. Sinanian	Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court	2002–
Kaye Tertzag	Judge of Wayne County Circuit Court	1987–2004

Name	Position	Years		Ref
Thomas Corwin^[a]	Minister to Mexico	1861–64	Abraham Lincoln
Edward Djerejian
	Ambassador to Syria	1988–91	Ronald Reagan	^[75]
	Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs	1991–93	George H. W. Bush
	Ambassador to Israel	1993–94	Bill Clinton
William A. Stanton
	Chargé d’affaires to Embassy Canberra, Australia	2005–06	George W. Bush	^[76]
	Director of the American Institute in Taiwan Deputy Chief of Mission to Embassy Seoul, Korea	2009–12	Barack Obama	^[76]
Nina Hachigian
	Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)	2014–17	Barack Obama	^[72]
	Special Representative for Subnational Diplomacy	2022–	Joe Biden	^[72]
Harry R. Kamian	Deputy Chief of Mission/Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission to the OSCE	2017–2020^[c]	Joe Biden	^[9]^[10]
Michael E. Kavoukjian	United States ambassador-designate to Norway	2025–	Donald Trump	^[77]^[78]