Background and Early Life
Raffi Hovannisian was born in Fresno, California, on November 20, 1959, to Richard Hovannisian and Vartiter Hovannisian (née Kotcholosian), both children of Armenian Genocide survivors. Raffi Hovannisian attended the Palisades Charter High School in Los Angeles, from where he graduated in 1977.
In his youth years Hovannisian was a member and later a leader of the California chapter of the Armenian Youth Federation, which is the youth organization of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
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