Cheryl Lau

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{for|the Australian singer born Cheryl Lau Sang|Samantha Sang}}

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| office2=Secretary of State of Nevada

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| term_start2 = January 3, 1991

| term_end2 = January 3, 1995

| governor2 = Bob Miller

| predecessor2=Frankie Sue Del Papa

| successor2=Dean Heller

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| party = Republican

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| birth_place =Hawaii Territory

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| residence =Carson City, Nevada

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Cheryl Lau (born July 4, 1944) is an American former politician who served as the first Asian-American Republican Secretary of State of Nevada.{{cite web |title=Previous Secretaries of State |url=https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/sos-information/office-facts/previous-secretaries-of-state |website=Nevada Secretary of State |access-date=19 February 2023 |archive-date=23 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123203713/https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/sos-information/office-facts/previous-secretaries-of-state |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Cheryl Lau |url=https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/cheryl-lau |website=The Institute of Politics at Harvard University |access-date=19 February 2023 |language=en |archive-date=18 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718182729/https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/cheryl-lau |url-status=live }}

Rather than seek re-election, she ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for the Nevada gubernatorial election, 1994, losing to Jim Gibbons.{{cite web |last1=Ostermeier |first1=Eric |title=Michele Fiore and a Review of Women Gubernatorial Candidates in Nevada |url=https://smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2021/10/20/michele-fiore-and-a-review-of-women-gubernatorial-candidates-in-nevada/ |website=Smart Politics |access-date=19 February 2023 |date=20 October 2021 |quote="1994 (Republican): Secretary of State Cheryl Lau with 32.3 percent losing to Assemblyman Jim Gibbons" |archive-date=29 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129040940/https://smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2021/10/20/michele-fiore-and-a-review-of-women-gubernatorial-candidates-in-nevada/ |url-status=live }}