30th Hawaii Territorial Legislature

30th Hawaiʻi Territorial Legislature
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Seal of the Territory of Hawaii
Overview
Legislative body	Hawaii Territorial Legislature
Jurisdiction	Territory of Hawaii, United States
Senate
Members	25
President	Herbert K. H. Lee
Vice President	Matsuki Arashiro
House of Representatives
Members	51
Speaker	Elmer F. Cravalho
Vice Speaker	Hiram K. Kamaka

The Thirtieth Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii was the final session of the Hawaii Territorial Legislature. The session convened in Honolulu, Hawaii, and ran from February 18 until May 2, 1959. ^{[1] [2]} This was the first session to comprise 25 senators and 51 representatives, avoiding potential equal representation which occurred in the House of Representatives during the 24th Hawaii Territorial Legislature.

Legislative session

The session ran from February 18 until May 2, 1959. It passed 279 bills into law.

Senators

↓
16	9
Democratic	Republican

Affiliation	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)			Total
	Democratic	Ind	Republican		Vacant
End of previous legislature (1957) [3]	12	0	3	15	0
Begin (1959)	16	0	9	25	0
Latest voting share	64%		36%

District	Senator	Party	County
1	Kazuhisa Abe	D	Hawaiʻi
	Nelson K. Doi	D
	William H. Hill	R
	Richard J. Lyman, Jr.	R
	Tom Okino	D
2	Bernard G. Kinney	R
	Julian R. Yates, Sr.	R
3	John G. Duarte	D	Maui
	George Fukuoka	D
	Herbert C. Jackson	R
	Thomas S. Ogata	D
	Nadao Yoshinaga	D
4	Daniel K. Inouye	D	Oahu
	Mitsuyuki Kido	D
	Herbert K. H. Lee	D
	Oren E. Long	D
	Hebden Porteus	R
5	George R. Ariyoshi	D
	Frank F. Fasi	D
	Patsy Takemoto Mink	D
	Sakae Takahashi	D
	Wilfred C Tsukiyama	R
6	Matsuki Arashiro	D	Kauaʻi
	Francis M. F. Ching	R
	Noboru Miyake	R

House of Representatives

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33	18
Democratic	Republican

Affiliation	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)			Total
	Democratic	Ind	Republican		Vacant
End of previous legislature (1957)	18	0	12	30	0
Begin (1959)	33	0	18	51	0
Latest voting share	64.7%		35.3%

District	Representative	Party	County
1	Jack Katsumi Suwa	D	Hawaiʻi
2	Stafford L. Austin	R
	Joseph R. Garcia, Jr.	R
	Stanley Ikuo Hara	D
	Raymond M. Kobayashi	D
3	Yoshito Takamine	D
4	Takeshi Kudo	D
5	Akoni Pule	D
6 (Lānaʻi)	Pedro Dela Cruz	D	Maui
7	Ray F. Adams	D
	Elmer F. Cravalho	D
	John E. Milligan	R
	Bernard Hiroshi Tokunaga	R
	David K. Trask, Jr.	D
8	Albert Evenson [note 1]	R	Oahu
	Hiram K. Kamaka	D
9	Yasutaka Fukushima	R
	John Lanham	D
10	Bernaldo D. Bicoy	D
	George Makoto Okano	D
11	Charles E. Kauhane	D
	Akira Sakima	D
	James H. Wakatsuki	D
12	Clarence W. H. Fong	R
	Sidney I. Hashimoto	D
	Robert Eijin Teruya	R
13	Sakae Amano	D
	Robert W. B. Chang	D
	Donald D. H. Ching	D
14	Walter Harada	D
	Flora K. Hayes	R
	David C. McClung	D
	Howard Y. Miyake	D
	Wadsworth Yee	R
15	Dorothy L. Devereux	R
	O. Vincent Esposito	D
	Thomas P. Gill	D
	J. Ward Russell	R
	James Yozo Shigemura	D
	J. Howard Worrall	R
16	Tadao Beppu	D
	Walter Heen	D
	Hiroshi Kato	D
	Spark M. Matsunaga	D
17	Webley Edwards	R
	Frank C. Judd	R
	Ambrose J. Rosehill	R
18	Allan H. Ezell	D	Kauaʻi
	Manuel S. Henriques	D
	Clinton I. Shiraishi	R
	Yoshiichi Yoshida	R

References

1. "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Thirtieth Legislature - Regular Session 1959". LLMC Digital. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
2. "Records of the Legislature of the State of Hawaii" (PDF). Hawaii State Archives. p. 3. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
3. "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Twenty-Ninth Legislature - Regular Session 1957". LLMC Digital. Retrieved February 24, 2021.

Notes

1. Elected at special election held April 25, 1959, to fill vacancy caused by death of the Honorable Representative Samuel W. King, who was elected at general election held November 4, 1958.