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Preston Banks (politician) Preston Banks, born November 8, 1977 )[2][3] is city councilman of the city of Manassas Park. He was elected on November 5, 2010. Banks is the first African American and Asian American elected in the city of Manassas Park. Banks was the child of an African American father and a mother of Japanese descent. Personal Life Banks was born in 1977 in Hampton, Virginia. His grandfather while serving in the Army in World War II met his grandmother in Japan and immigrated to the United States. After his grandfather died in 1962, his grandmother moved to Oahu, Hawaii where she worked and raised her four childern. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2001, and from George Mason University Gradauate School of Public Policy in 2007. 2010 Election