CAMPBELL, Calif. (KCBS) -- The city of Campbell's new mayor is the now the youngest openly gay mayor, and the youngest Asian American mayor in the country.
Evan Low, 26, was voted into his one year term on Campbell's mayor rotation system Tuesday night by the city council.
The city, population 40,000, has neither a large gay or Asian population.
"The bottom line is actually not so much about Evan, as it is about opportunity," said Low's college political science professor Terry Christensen . "What he shows is that if you're persistent and you pay your dues, and you have the political skills, which he didn't learn in school because those things come from practice and instinct; if you have all those things it's possible here."
Low graduated from San Jose State in 2003 and got an internship on the city council, and was elected to the council when he was 23.
There were also notable developments in two other Bay Area cities Tuesday night. Novato became the second California city with an all-female city council, and Cupertino became the first Northern California city to have Asian Americans as the majority of its council.
Picture courtesy CBS5.
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