Mazie Hirono
Mazie Hirono, Keiko ( born November 3, 1947 County Date, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan as Keiko Hirono (Japanese広 野 庆 子, Keiko Hirono ) ) is an American politician. From 2007 to 2013, it represented the second electoral district of the state of Hawaii in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since January 3, 2013, it sits for Hawaii in the United States Senate.
Early years and political rise
In 1955, Mazie Hirono came with her mother, who fled from a failed marriage, to the United States. She grew up in Honolulu, where she attended the public schools. Until 1970 she studied at the University of Hawaii psychology. After studying law at Georgetown University followed in Washington DC. Starting in 1978 she worked as a lawyer in Honolulu.
As a member of the Democratic Party, she was 1981-1994 Member of the House of Representatives from Hawaii and from 1994 to 2002, the Deputy Governor Ben Cayetano Hawaiian. Before the election for governor in 2002, she sat down in the primaries of their party narrowly defeated by Ed Case, who was then elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. The actual gubernatorial election of 2002, she lost against Republican Linda Lingle a contestant with 47 to 52 percent of the vote.
Congressman and Senator
In the 2006 congressional elections Mazie Hirono was elected as Members of the second electoral district of Hawaii House of Representatives of the United States as successor by Ed Case - with 61 percent of the vote; her Republican opponent Bob Hogue came to 39 percent. In 2008 and 2010 she was re-elected. In Congress, she was a member of the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Their term of office ran until January 3, 2013.
In November 2012, she was chosen for Hawaii in the Senate of the United States, where they succeeded where not more candidates Daniel Akaka on January 3, 2013. With the Japanese American Hirono is the first time a Buddhist drafted in the Senate. There she is represented as a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Justice Committee and the Veterans Committee.