Patsy Mink
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii's 2nd district
In office September 22, 1990 – September 28, 2002
Preceded by	Daniel Akaka
Succeeded by	Ed Case
In office January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1977
Preceded by	New district
Succeeded by	Daniel Akaka
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii's At Large district
In office January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1971
Preceded by	Thomas Gill
Succeeded by	District eliminated[1]
Personal details
Born	Patsy Matsu Takemoto (1927-12-06)December 6, 1927 Maui, Hawaii
Died	September 28, 2002(2002-09-28) (aged 74) Honolulu, Hawaii
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	John Mink
Children	Gwendolyn Mink
Religion	Protestant

Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink (Japanese: 竹本まつ, December 6, 1927–September 28, 2002) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. Mink was a third generation Japanese American and member of the Democratic Party. She also was the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.

Mink served in the U.S. House of Representatives for a total of 12 terms, representing Hawaii's first and second congressional districts. While in Congress she was noted for authoring the Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act. Mink won her last election after her death in 2002.

Mink was the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. She was also the first woman elected to Congress from the state of Hawaii, and became the first Asian American to seek the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in the 1972 election, where she stood in the Oregon primary as an anti-war candidate.^[2]

In recognition of her contributions towards equal rights in the country, Congress named the Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act the "Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act".

Family background[link]

Mink's parents were second-generation Japanese Americans or Nisei. She was a Sansei, or third-generation descendant of emigrants from Japan.^[3] Her father, Suematsu Takemoto, was a civil engineer. Her mother, Mitama Tateyama, was a homemaker.^[4][5] Takemoto graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1922. Takemoto was the first Japanese American to graduate from the University of Hawaii.^[6]

For several years, he was the only Japanese American civil engineer working in Maui.^[6] Takemoto was passed over and not promoted several times during his career; instead the positions offered to white Americans.^[6] He resigned his local position in 1945 in the aftermath of World War II, and moved to Honolulu with his family. Takemoto established his own land surveying company in Honolulu.^[6]

Her maternal grandparents were Gojiro Tateyama and his wife Tsuru. Gojiro was born in the Empire of Japan during the 19th century. He arrived in the Territory of Hawaii late in the century, and was employed as a worker on a sugar plantation. He later moved to Maui, and was initially employed as a worker for the East Maui Irrigation Company. Subsequently, Gojiro was employed as a store manager and filling station employee. He also delivered mail throughout the backcountry of Maui.

The Tateyamas lived in a shack by Waikamoi Stream. They had eleven children. William Pogue, Gojiro's employer at the Irrigation Company, arranged to have the Tateyama female children educated at the Maunaolu Seminary, a boarding school for Christian girls located in the town of Makawao.^[6]

Early years and education[link]

Mink was born in Paia on the island of Maui. She was raised by her parents on Maui.

She attended Maui High School and in her Junior year, Mink won her first election to become student body president. Her election to the position came with great challenges. She developed approaches to confront these challenges, and she drew on these experiences when later serving in the territorial legislature and in Congress. For example, the month before the election, Honolulu was attacked by Japan. As a consequence, most of the student body was uncomfortable with anything that was Japanese-oriented. Therefore, in order to get elected, Mink had to overcome these hard feelings. Mink also had to cope with being the only female who had ever showed ambition for student office in the school's history, something that was unheard of at the time. Mink orchestrated a strategy of impressing the various cliques on campus, including the popular football team. Her coalition-building strategy worked and she won a close election. In 1944, Mink graduated from high school as class valedictorian.

Mink moved to Honolulu where she attended the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. She spent one semester (Sept. 1946-Jan. 1947) enrolled at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. She then transferred to the University of Nebraska where she once again faced discrimination. The university had a long-standing racial segregation policy whereby students of color were forced to live in different dormitories from the white students. This annoyed Mink, and she organized and created a coalition of students, parents, administrators, employees, alumni, sponsoring businesses and corporations. Mink and her coalition successfully lobbied to end the university's segregation policies.

After her successful war against segregation at the University of Nebraska, Mink moved back to Honolulu to prepare for medical school. She received bachelor's degrees in zoology and chemistry from the University of Hawaii. However in 1948, none of the twenty medical schools to which she applied would accept women. A disappointed Mink decided the best way to force medical schools to accept women would be through the judicial process. Mink decided to go to law school.

Mink applied to the University of Chicago Law School. Unusually, the school had admitted women from its inception in 1902, and Mink attended law school with several other women. Mink obtained her juris doctor degree in 1951.

Family and early career[link]

While at law school, Mink met hydrologist John Mink (1924–2005), who was to become her husband and lifelong partner.

Newly married, Mink settled in Honolulu, where she began practicing law. In 1952, Patsy gave birth to her daughter Gwendolyn, who later became a prominent author and educator on labor and women's issues.

In 1956 as the Territory of Hawaii debated statehood, Mink was elected to the Hawaii Territorial Legislature representing her district in the territorial House of Representatives. Mink then served in the territorial Senate. In 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state of the Union. in 1962-1964, Mink served in the Hawaii State Senate.

U.S. Representative[link]

Patsy Mink during her first career in Congress

Mink with Lyndon Johnson after his trip to Hawaii for a conference on the Vietnam War, February 1966.

In 1965, Mink became the first female minority to join the ranks of Congress. She served six consecutive terms. During the 1972 Presidential race, Mink ran in the Oregon primary as an anti-Vietnam War candidate.

Mink took what she learned in high school and built some of the most influential coalitions in Congress. Her most important coalition was one to support the Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act, which she wrote, prohibiting gender discrimination by federally funded institutions, an outgrowth of the adversities Mink faced through college.

Mink also introduced the first comprehensive Early Childhood Education Act and authored the Women's Educational Equity Act. All of these laws written by Mink were declared landmark laws by Congress as they advanced equal rights in America beyond what could be imagined during the time. Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act was renamed by President George W. Bush on 29 October 2002 to become the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act.

From 1975 to 1977, during the 94th Congress, Mink was elected to a position in the House Democratic leadership, as Secretary of the House Democratic Caucus.^[7]

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State[link]

In 1976, Mink gave up her seat in Congress to run for a vacancy in the United States Senate. After she lost the primary election for the Senate seat to Spark Matsunaga, President of the United States Jimmy Carter appointed Mink as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. She served under Cyrus Vance and Edmund Muskie.

Return to U.S. Representative[link]

After her service in the Carter Administration, Mink settled in Honolulu, where she was elected to the Honolulu City Council. Her peers on the council eventually elected her Chairwoman, and she often butted heads with the controversial Mayor of Honolulu Frank Fasi.

In 1990, Mink won back a seat in Congress, serving alongside Neil Abercrombie who represented the First Congressional District of Hawaii.

Death[link]

On August 30, 2002, Mink was hospitalized in Honolulu's Straub Clinic and Hospital with complications from chickenpox. Her condition steadily worsened, and on September 28, 2002, Mink died in Honolulu of viral pneumonia, at age 74. Hawaii and the nation mourned as President George W. Bush ordered all flags to be lowered to half staff in honor of her contributions towards the equal rights of Americans. Mink received a national memorial and was honored with a state funeral in the Hawaii State Capitol Rotunda attended by leaders and members of Congress. She is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. In 2007, Central Oahu Regional Park on Oahu was renamed "Patsy T. Mink Central Oahu Regional Park" in her honor.

Mink's death occurred one week after the 2002 primary election, too late for her name to be removed from the general election ballot. On November 5, 2002, Mink was posthumously re-elected to Congress. Her vacant seat was filled by Ed Case after a special election on January 4, 2003.

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Nomura, Gail M. (1998). "Japanese American Women," in The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (Mankiller, Barbara Smith, ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 10-ISBN 0618001824/13-ISBN 9780618001828; OCLC 43338598

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Patsy Mink at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Her profile in "Distinguished Asian Americans"
• Her profile in "American Women Administrators"
• Her profile in "Called from Within"
• Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, a documentary by Kimberlee Bassford
• All Politics Profile on CNN
• Honolulu Advertiser Special Edition, September 29, 2002
• Honolulu Advertiser Special Edition, October 5, 2002
• National Organization for Women Memorial of Patsy Mink
• National Women's History Project Biography of Patsy Mink

v t e Members of the United States House of Representatives from Hawaii One At-large seat (1959–1963) At-large seat Inouye Two At-large seats (1963–1971) At-large seat A Gill · Mink At-large seat B Matsunaga Districts (1971–present) 1st district Matsunaga · Heftel · Abercrombie · Saiki · Abercrombie · Djou · Hanabusa 2nd district Mink · Akaka · Mink · Case · Hirono

Martha Griffiths
58th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
In office January 1, 1983 – December 31, 1991
Governor	James J. Blanchard
Preceded by	James H. Brickley
Succeeded by	Connie Binsfield
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 17th district
In office January 3, 1955 – December 31, 1974
Preceded by	Charles G. Oakman
Succeeded by	William M. Brodhead
Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the xxth district
In office January 1, 1949 – December 31, 1953
Personal details
Born	January 29, 1912 Pierce City, Missouri
Died	April 22, 2003 Armada, Michigan
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Hicks George Griffiths
Alma mater	University of Missouri

Martha Wright Griffiths (January 29, 1912 – April 22, 2003) was an American lawyer and judge before being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1954. Griffiths was the first woman to serve on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means and the first woman elected to the United States Congress from Michigan as a member of the Democratic Party. She was also the person most responsible for including the prohibition of sex discrimination under Title VII in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1982, Griffiths was also the first female elected as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan. Matilda Dodge Wilson was appointed the first female Lieutenant Governor of Michigan in 1939.

Martha Edna Wright was born in Pierce City, Missouri. She attended public schools, and went on to graduate with a B.A. from the University of Missouri in 1934. She choose to continue her education by studying law and graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1940. She married Hicks George Griffiths (b. 1910), a lawyer and a judge as well as chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party from 1949–1950.

She worked as a lawyer in private practice then in the legal department of the American Automobile Insurance Co. in Detroit from 1941–1942 and then as the Ordnance District contract negotiator from 1942-1946. She was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives, serving from 1949 to 1953. In 1953, she was appointed as recorder and judge of the Recorder's Court in Detroit and sat as judge from 1953–1954—the first woman to do so.

In 1954, Griffiths was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 17th congressional district to the 84th Congress and was subsequently re-elected to the nine following Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955 to December 31, 1974 in the U.S. House. She sat as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in 1956 as well as in 1968. She was not a candidate for re-election to the 94th Congress in 1974. During her time in Congress, Griffiths sponsored the Equal Rights Amendment, one of only a few proposed amendments to pass in Congress and be sent to the states for ratification.

After her congressional service, Griffiths returned to the practice of law and then served as the 57th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan from 1983 to 1991 on the ticket of Governor James Blanchard. She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1983 and to the National Women's Hall of Fame a decade later in 1993. She retired to her home in Armada, Michigan, where she lived until her death in 2003.

References[link]

• Martha Griffiths at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Tulsi Gabbard (formerly Tulsi Gabbard Tamayo)
Member of the Honolulu City Council from District 6
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2, 2011
Preceded by	Rod Tam
Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from district 42
In office 2002–2004
Preceded by	Mark Moses
Succeeded by	Rida Cabanilla
Personal details
Born	(1981-04-12) April 12, 1981 (age 31) Leloaloa, American Samoa
Residence	Honolulu
Website	http://www.votetulsi.com
Military service
Rank	Captain
Awards	Meritorious Service Medal Army Commendation Medal Army Achievement Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster Army Good Conduct Medal Combat Medical Badge German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency in Gold

Tulsi Gabbard (born April 12, 1981) is a member of the Honolulu City Council. She served as Hawaii’s youngest state representative in 2002 and is the youngest woman in the USA to be elected into such a position. She is currently a Company Commander with the Hawaii Army National Guard, and has volunteered to serve on two deployments to the Middle East. She is also vice-president and co-founder of the environmental non-profit organization Healthy Hawaii Coalition.

Childhood and education[link]

Tulsi Gabbard was born in Leloaloa, American Samoa, the fourth of five children of Mike Gabbard, (educator, tennis pro, business owner and current Hawaii State Senator of 19th District) and Carol Porter Gabbard (educator and business owner). The family moved to Hawaii in 1983 where Tulsi grew up. Tulsi was homeschooled through high school, with the exception of two years spent at an all-girls missionary academy in the Philippines. She graduated from Hawaii Pacific University with a degree in International Business.^{[citation needed]}

Political and military career[link]

Tulsi’s involvement in public service began at a young age. In 2002, at the age of 21, she became the youngest legislator ever elected in the history of Hawaii and the youngest woman ever elected in the nation. She served as a State Representative for the 42nd District of Oahu which covers Waipahu, Honouliuli and Ewa Beach. While in office, she served on the Education, Higher Education, Tourism and Economic Development committees. She played a key role, along with her Ewa colleagues, in securing much-needed funding for infrastructure on the Ewa Plains.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2003, while serving in office, Tulsi enlisted in the Hawaii Army National Guard.^[1] She received several distinguished honor graduate titles and awards at Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training.

In July 2004, Gabbard gave up her seat in office in order to serve with her Hawaii National Guard unit and volunteered for an 12-month deployment to Iraq, where she worked in a field medical unit. She earned the Meritorious Service Medal for her combat tour.^{[citation needed]}

Gabbard graduated from the Accelerated Officer Candidate School at the Alabama Military Academy in March 2007. She made history as the first female to finish as the distinguished honor graduate in the Academy’s 50-year history.^[2] She was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and was then assigned to the 29th Brigade Special Troops Battalion to serve as the Military Police Platoon Leader.

Upon her return from Iraq in 2006, Gabbard served as a legislative aide for US Senator Daniel K. Akaka in Washington, DC. She was responsible for issues involving veteran affairs, energy and natural resources, judiciary, and homeland security. She acted as a surrogate speaker for Senator Akaka on many occasions, and built a grassroots network with the veteran community in Hawaii.

She continued working for Senator Akaka until 2009 when she volunteered for a second deployment to the Middle East, serving as a Platoon Leader for the 29th Brigade Special Troops Battalion Military Police platoon.

During her deployment, she led her platoon on a variety of security missions, conducted non-military host-nation visits, as well as served as a primary trainer for the Kuwait National Guard. She was among the first females to set foot inside a Kuwait military facility, and became the first female ever to be awarded and honored by the Kuwait National Guard for her work in their training and readiness program.

In 2010, Gabbard was selected as one of 30 national finalists for the White House Fellowship. Although she was ultimately not selected as a White House Fellow, she was the only National Guard Soldier, and only Hawaii resident to reach the finalist round in 2010.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011, Gabbard was promoted to Captain and now serves as a Company Commander. Gabbard is currently the Honolulu City Councilmember representing District 6 which covers Kalihi Valley, Downtown Honolulu, Punchbowl, Liliha, Pauoa Valley, Nuuanu, Alewa Heights, Papakolea, and portions of Makiki.

Congressional Campaign[link]

In May 2011, Gabbard announced her candidacy for U.S. Representative in Hawaii's Second Congressional District. The incumbent Congresswoman, Mazie Hirono, is running for a U.S. Senate seat.^[3]

Non-profit organizations and associations[link]

Tulsi Gabbard co-founded two successful non-profit organizations:
1. Healthy Hawaii Coalition, an environmental educational group of which she is Vice President and Educational Programs Coordinator
2. Stand Up For America, an organization founded after 9/11, which strives to promote patriotism, unity, and support^{[clarification needed]} for service members and their families.

She is a lifetime member of the National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS) and the Military Police Regimental Association.

References[link]

Dkosopedia
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Honolulu Advertiser, August 2004
Honolulu Advertiser, March 2005
Honolulu Advertiser, May 2007
Voice of Kapolei
Hawaii News Now
Hawaii Reporter

External links[link]

• Tulsi Gabbard official website
• Healthy Hawaii Coalition (HHC)

Kirk Caldwell (born September 4, 1952) is an American politician who was Acting Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu in 2010. He is currently running for Mayor of Honolulu.

Life[link]

Caldwell represented the 24th Representative District in the Hawaii State House of Representatives of the Hawaii State Legislature from 2002 to 2008, serving as the House Majority Leader between 2007 and 2008. Caldwell left the race for re-election for the House of Representatives to run for City Council in Honolulu. Caldwell was unable to run for council as he had not formally withdrawn from the election for the House of Representatives.^[1]

On July 20, 2010, Caldwell assumed the position of interim mayor after Mufi Hannemann resigned to compete in the 2010 Hawaii gubernatorial election. Caldwell held the office of mayor until a special election is held to determine a permanent successor.^[2]

Tsunami[link]

Caldwell served as the acting mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii's capital and largest city, during the tsunami evacuation in the absence of Mayor Mufi Hannemann following the 2010 Chile earthquake.

Mayoral election[link]

He lost to former Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Peter Carlisle in the 2010 Special Honolulu mayoral election, 2010.^[3]

2012 Mayoral election[link]

Caldwell has announced his candidacy in the 2012 Honolulu mayoral election.^[4] He will face incumbent Mayor Peter Carlisle and former Hawaii Governor Ben Cayetano in the election.^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Campaign Website

Mazie Keiko Hirono (メイジー・ヒロノ, Meijī Hirono^?, Japanese name: 広野 慶子 Hirono Keiko, born November 3, 1947) is the U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district, serving since 2007. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

She was the second Asian immigrant elected lieutenant governor of a state of the United States. She ran against Linda Lingle for governor of Hawaii in 2002, one of the few gubernatorial races in United States history where two major parties nominated women to challenge each other. She considers herself a non-practicing Buddhist,^[1] and is often cited with Hank Johnson (D-Georgia), as the first Buddhist to serve in the United States Congress.^[2] She is the third woman to be elected to Congress from the state of Hawaii (after Patsy Mink and Pat Saiki). On May 19, 2011, Hirono announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat left open by Senator Daniel Akaka. She will face Ed Case in the Democratic primary, setting up a rematch of the 2002 Democratic primary for Governor, in which she defeated him by a 1% margin (though a few weeks later, she lost to Lingle in the general election.)

Early life, education, and law career[link]

Hirono was born in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, in 1947. In 1955, Hirono's mother escaped an abusive marriage by emigrating to the United States with her children. Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Hirono attended Kaʻahumanu Elementary and Koko Head Elementary Schools. She later graduated from Kaimuki High School, which at the time of her attendance had a predominantly Japanese American student body. Upon graduating from high school, Hirono enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa where, in 1970, she received B.A. in psychology. She left Hawaii briefly to attend Georgetown University Law Center. She was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and obtained her J.D. in 1978. Hirono quickly returned to Honolulu where she practiced law.

Hawaii House of Representatives (1981–1995)[link]

Elections[link]

In 1980, she was elected to Hawaii's 12th House District in a multi-member district with Democrat State Representative David Hagino.^[3] Hawaii eliminated MMDs and after redistricting, she ran for Hawaii's 20th House District and won.^[4] After redistricting again in 1984, she ran for the newly redrawn Hawaii's 32nd House District and won.^[5] In 1992, after redistricting, she ran in the newly redrawn Hawaii's 22nd House District. She was challenged in the Democratic primary and won the three candidate field with 91% of the vote.^[6] She won the general election and served only one term in the 22nd district before retiring in 1994 to run for statewide office.^[7]

Tenure[link]

From 1980 to 1994, Hirono served in the Hawaii House of Representatives, passing more than 120 laws. She was honored by a coalition of leaseholders as Legislator of the Year in 1984.

Committee assignments[link]

From 1987 to 1992, she was the Chairman of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee.

Lieutenant Governor (1995–2003)[link]

Elections[link]

1994

She ran for Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii and won the Democratic primary defeating fellow State Representative Jackie Young 65%–26%.^[8] In the general election, she defeated three other candidates: Danny Kaniela Kaleikini (Best Party), State Representative Fred Hemmings (Republican Party), and Jack Morse (Green Party) 37%–31%–29%–4%.^[9]

1998

She ran for re-election in 1998. She was challenged in the primary by Nancy L. Cook and defeated her 89%–11%.^[10] In the general election, Hirono defeated Republican State Senator Stan Koki 50%–49%, a difference of 5,254 votes.^[11]

Tenure[link]

In 1994, she joined the ticket of incumbent Lieutenant Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano and was consequently elected to an historic administration led by the first Filipino American governor and first Japanese immigrant lieutenant governor. During her tenure as lieutenant governor, Hirono was also president of the National Commission on Teaching, America's Future, as well as the Hawaiʻi Policy Group. She also spearheaded the first-in-the-nation comprehensive Pre-Plus program, a precursor to universal pre-school education in the United States.

2002 gubernatorial election[link]

Hirono originally wanted to run for Mayor of Honolulu in a potential 2002 special election created by the vacancy of incumbent Mayor Jeremy Harris, who was planning to resign in order to run for Governor of Hawaii. However, due to internal controversies, Harris dropped out of the gubernatorial election and remained mayor for another two years. Hirono switched races.

Hirono maneuvered to gain the support of potential Harris voters in her challenge against former State House Majority Leader Ed Case. Through the entire primary campaign season, Hirono and Case polled almost equally. Case appealed to Hawaii residents that his campaign was one of government reform as opposed to Hirono whom Case alleged represented the "Old boys network" of Democrats that had ruled over Hawaii for forty years. Hirono defeated Case in the September 21 Democratic primary, 41%-40%, a difference of 2,613 votes.^[12][13][14]

Only a few weeks later, Republican nominee and Mayor of Maui Linda Lingle defeated Hirono 52%-47%. She became Hawaii's first female governor.^[15][16]

U.S. House of Representatives (2007–present)[link]

Earlier photo of Congresswoman Hirono.

Elections[link]

2006

On September 23, Hirono ran for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district, being vacated by incumbent U.S. Congressman Ed Case. The Democratic primary was very competitive. There were ten candidates, seven of which served in the Hawaii Legislature. Hirono's advantage was the fact that she was the only candidate who had held statewide office and as a result had the most name recognitions. She also raised more money than any other candidate in the race, mostly because of the endorsement of EMILY's List,.^[17] Hirono also loaned her campaign $100,000. She won with a plurality of just 22% of the vote. State Senator Colleen Hanabusa ranked second with 21%, and was only 845 votes away from defeating Hirono.^[18][19]

In the general election, she defeated Republican State Senator Bob Hogue 61%-39%.^[20]

2008

Hirono won re-election to a second term with 76% of the vote.^[21] She outperformed Obama, a native of Honolulu, by three points.

2010

Hirono won re-election to a third term with 72% of the vote.^[22]

Committee assignments[link]

• Committee on Education and the Workforce
  • Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education
  • Subcommittee on Workforce Protections
• Committee on Ethics
• Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
  • Subcommittee on Highways and Transit

Caucus memberships[link]

• Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
• Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus
• International Conservation Caucus
• SAFE Port Act

2012 U.S. Senate election[link]

On May 19, 2011, Mazie Hirono announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat left open by Senator Daniel Akaka, who is retiring at the end of his term in 2012.^[23]

Electoral history[link]

Results certified by the Office of Elections, State of Hawaii:^[24]

• 2002 Race for Governor
  • Linda Lingle (R), 51.1%
  • Mazie Hirono (D), 46.6%
• 2006 Race for U.S. House of Representatives – 2nd Congressional District
  • Mazie Hirono (D), 59.8%
  • Bob Hogue (R), 38.2%
• 2008 Race for U.S. House of Representatives – 2nd Congressional District
  • Mazie Hirono (D), 69.8%
  • Roger Evans (R), 18.7%
• 2010 Race for U.S. House of Representatives – 2nd Congressional District
  • Mazie Hirono (D), 67.7%
  • John Willoughby (R), 23.7%

References[link]

External links[link]

	Hawaii portal
	Biography portal

• U.S. Congresswoman Mazie Hirono official U.S. House site
• Hirono for Senate official campaign site
• Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Congressional profile at GovTrack
• Congressional profile at OpenCongress
• Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
• Financial information at OpenSecrets.org
• Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
• Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Campaign contributions at the National Institute for Money in State Politics
• Appearances on C-SPAN programs
• Profile at SourceWatch
• Democratic Party of Hawaiʻi
• "The Immigrant Congresswoman" Dan Boylan, March 21, 2007, MidWeek cover story

v t e Lieutenant Governors of Hawaii Kealoha · Richardson · Gill · Ariyoshi · Doi · King · Waihee · Cayetano · Hirono · Aiona · Schatz

v t e Members of the United States House of Representatives from Hawaii One At-large seat (1959–1963) At-large seat Inouye Two At-large seats (1963–1971) At-large seat A Gill · Mink At-large seat B Matsunaga Districts (1971–present) 1st district Matsunaga · Heftel · Abercrombie · Saiki · Abercrombie · Djou · Hanabusa 2nd district Mink · Akaka · Mink · Case · Hirono