Pat Saiki

Patricia Fukuda " Pat" Saiki ( born May 28, 1930 in Hilo, Hawaii) is a former American politician. Between 1987 and 1991, she represented the first electoral district of the State of Hawaii in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years and political rise

Pat Saiki visited until 1948, the Hilo High School and then studied until 1952 at the University of Hawaii. She then worked as a teacher and businesswoman. She became a member of the Republican Party. From 1968 to 1974 she was a Member of the House of Representatives from Hawaii and between 1974 to 1982 she was a member of the State Senate. Following the resignation of Congressman Cecil Heftel she ran unsuccessfully in 1986 at a by-election to his congressional seat, which went to Neil Abercrombie.

Congressman

In the regular congressional elections this year Saiki successfully ran in the first electoral district of Hawaii against Abercrombie. After a re-election in 1988, she was able to exercise this mandate between January 1987 and January 3, 1991 3. In 1990, she did not run for the U.S. House of Representatives. There you seat fell again to Neil Abercrombie of the Democratic Party. Instead, she applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In these elections, they defeated with 44.6 % of the vote against incumbent Daniel Akaka.

To this day, Pat Saiki has remained the only Congressman Republican from Hawaii. Otherwise, a state of the United States have been since 1959, when Hawaii was all congressmen members of the Democratic Party. Between 1991 and 1993, Saiki was under President George Bush director of the Small Business Administration. In 1994, she ran unsuccessfully as a candidate of their party for the office of the Governor of Hawaii.