Sam Liccardo
U.S. Representative from CA, District 16
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Sam Liccardo is a California Democratic congressman from the 16th District, former two-term mayor of San Jose elected in 2024.
Sam T. Liccardo represents California's 16th Congressional District, a Silicon Valley district, as a Democrat sworn in January 2025 after winning the seat vacated by the retiring Anna Eshoo. A Saratoga, California, native, Liccardo graduated from Georgetown and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and law school, and worked as a federal and county prosecutor focused on child exploitation and sex trafficking cases. He was elected to the San Jose City Council in 2006 and served as mayor of San Jose from 2015 to 2023, leading the tenth-largest U.S. city through the COVID-19 pandemic and managing wildfire and water challenges while chairing the U.S. Conference of Mayors' technology and innovation committee. In the 119th Congress, Liccardo serves on the House Committee on Financial Services, overseeing housing, banking, insurance, and securities. As chair of the New Democratic Coalition's Innovation and Technology Working Group, he advocates for bipartisan solutions to housing affordability, public safety, and clean energy leadership. A member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Caucus, his priorities include housing affordability, public safety, technology and AI policy, and transit infrastructure.