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tom paull::He is a member of the , elected from the 21st legislative district, in southwest snohomish county.
Shin was born in in 1935.
Orphaned at the age of four, he lived on the streets of begging for food until the outbreak of the in 1950, at which point he became a houseboy to a group of officers.
In 1954, one of them, a dentist named ray paull, adopted shin and took him home to.
Despite never having been educated in korea, and knowing little english, shin completed a in 18 months.
Shin went on to earn a ba in political science from , an mpia from the , and an ma and phd from the.
He was elected to the washington state senate in 1998.
He and his wife donna have two children and five grandsons.