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MINK, Patsy Takemoto, a Representative from Hawaii; born Patsy Matsu Takemoto, December 6,
1927, in Paia, Maui County, Hawaii; graduated from Maui High School, Maui,
Hawaii, 1944; attended Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa., 1946; attended the
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr., 1947; B.A., University of Hawaii,
Manoa, Hawaii, 1948; J.D., University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Ill.,
1951; lawyer, private practice; lecturer, University of Hawaii, 1952-1956,
1959-1962, and 1979-1981; attorney for Hawaii territorial house of
representatives, 1955; member of the Hawaii state house of representatives,
1956-1958; member of the Hawaii state senate, 1958-1959 and 1962-1964; delegate
to the Democratic National Convention, 1960, 1972, 1980, and 1984; elected as a
Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1965-January 3, 1977); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth
Congress in 1976, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the
United States Senate; Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 1977-1978; president, Americans for
Democratic Action, 1978-1981; member, Honolulu, Hawaii, city council,
1983-1987, chair, 1983-1985; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred First
Congress in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
United States Representative Daniel K. Akaka; reelected to the seven succeeding
Congresses (September 22, 1990-September 28, 2002); died on September 28, 2002,
in Honolulu, Hawaii; posthumously elected to the One Hundred Eighth Congress in
2002.
BibliographyPatsy T. Mink in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
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