Patsy Mink

Patsy Takemoto Mink (December 6, 1927 in Paia, Maui County Hawaii, † 28 September 2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 2002 she represented twice the state of Hawaii in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Until 1944, Patsy Mink visited, born Takemoto, the Maui High School and then to 1946 the Wilson College in Chambersburg (Pennsylvania). In the following years she studied at the University of Nebraska, the University of Hawaii and the University of Chicago. At the latter she made her law degree in 1951. She then practiced as a lawyer. At the same time she taught 1952-1981 with interruptions at the University of Hawaii law.

Political career

Mink was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1955 she was a legal representative of the territorial House of Representatives from Hawaii. From 1956 to 1958 she was a deputy member of this body, and between 1958 to 1959 she served on the last territorial Senate. From 1962 to 1964 she was a member of the State Senate. In the years 1960, 1972, 1980 and 1984, she was delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. In the congressional elections of 1964, she was elected for the first electoral district of Hawaii as the successor of Thomas Ponce Gill in the U.S. House of Representatives. After several re- elections, they could exercise this mandate between January 1965 and January 3, 1977 3. In Congress, she was in the drafting of the ninth addition to the Education Law ( Article IX of the Education ammendments ) significantly involved. In 1976, she had renounced a bid again. But she applied unsuccessfully for their party's nomination for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

From 1977 to 1978 she worked under President Jimmy Carter for the U.S. State Department. There she served as Secretary of State ( Assistant Secretary of State ) for oceanic and international research and environmental affairs. Between 1983 and 1987 Mink was a member of the City Council of Honolulu and its chairman since 1985. In 1990 she was nachgewählt after the change of Daniel Akaka in the U.S. Senate for the second electoral district in the U.S. House of Representatives. This mandate she practiced since September 22, 1990, after several re- elections until her death in September 2002. The elections of 2002, she won posthumously. Her successor was then Ed Case, who was elected in a by-election in January 2003.

Patsy Mink was married to John Mink, with whom she had a daughter.