Allan Fung

Allan Wai-Ket Fung (born February 25, 1970) is an American attorney and politician who has been mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, since 2009. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Rhode Island in the 2014 election and 2018 election. Elected mayor in 2008, Fung became the first mayor of Chinese ancestry in Rhode Island. Fung was previously a state prosecutor and attorney on legislative and regulatory affairs before serving on the Cranston City Council as a citywide councilman. He lost the gubernatorial race in Rhode Island during 2014 to Democrat Gina Raimondo by five points and again lost in a landslide to Governor Raimondo in 2018 by over a fifteen-point margin.