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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 February 2025. American politician (born 1981) Tulsi Gabbard Gabbard in 2025 8th Director of National Intelligence Incumbent Assumed office February 12, 2025 President Donald Trump Deputy Alexa Henning Preceded by Avril Haines Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii's 2nd district In ...
Retired to run for Governor of Hawaii. Cecil Heftel: Democratic: January 3, 1977 – July 11, 1986 1st: Honolulu: Elected in 1976. Resigned to run for Governor of Hawaii. Mazie Hirono: Democratic: January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2013 2nd: Honolulu: Elected in 2006. Retired to run for U.S. Senator. Victor S. K. Houston: Republican: March 4, 1927 ...
The Republican nominee was former Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle, who had defeated Hirono a decade earlier in the gubernatorial election. Hirono defeated Lingle with 63% of the vote. [40] She is the first female senator from Hawaii, as well as the first Asian-born immigrant to be elected to the U.S. Senate. [41]
The 2020 presidential campaign of Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district, was announced in January 2019, [4] and officially launched in February 2019. [5] [6] [7] Gabbard was the first female combat veteran to run for president. [8]
Ken Ito [2] (born April 29, 1944, in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2012 to 2018 representing District 49. Ito consecutively served from 1994 until 2012 in the District 48 seat.
He won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as Hawaii's first full member, and took office August 21, 1959, the same date Hawaii became a state. Inouye was re-elected in 1960. While in the House of Representatives , Inouye voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1960 [ 44 ] and for the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution .
Map of Hawaii's two congressional districts for the United States House of Representatives since 2022. Since Hawaii became a state in 1959, [1] it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years.
Below is a List of Hawaiʻi politicians from the monarchical, republican, territorial, and statehood eras of history who have articles devoted to them on Wikipedia.Also listed are politicians who were born and raised in Hawaiʻi but have assumed political roles in other states or countries.