Neil Abercrombie is an American politician who served as the seventh governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Charles Kong Djou is an American politician and attorney who is currently Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission. A former member of the Republican Party,Djou briefly served as U.S. representative from Hawaii's 1st congressional district from May 2010 to January 2011. As of 2024,he is the last Republican to represent Hawaii in Congress.
Brian Emanuel Schatz is an American educator and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Hawaii,a seat he has held since 2012. A member of the Democratic Party,Schatz served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1998 to 2006,representing the 25th legislative district;as the chairman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii from 2008 to 2010;and as the 12th lieutenant governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2012.
Colleen Wakako Hanabusa is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2015 and again from 2016 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,she ran for her party's nomination for governor of Hawaii in 2018,challenging and losing to incumbent and fellow Democrat David Ige.
The 2010 Hawaii gubernatorial election was held on November 2,2010,to elect the next governor and lieutenant governor of Hawaii. Incumbent Republican governor Linda Lingle was term-limited and not eligible to run for re-election. The Democratic Party nominated Neil Abercrombie,and the Republican Party nominated incumbent lieutenant governor Duke Aiona. In the election,Abercrombie won and was sworn in as the state's 7th governor on December 6,2010. Aiona later unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Hawaii in 2014 and 2022.
House Bill 444 was a 2009 bill of the Hawaii State Legislature,passed in April 2010 and vetoed by Governor of Hawaii Linda Lingle,that would have legalized civil unions for couples in the state of Hawaii. Its legislative process was accompanied by controversy over the bill's content and effects and rallies were held by supporters and opponents.
The 2010 special election for the 1st congressional district of Hawaii was a special election to the United States House of Representatives that took place to fill the vacancy caused by Representative Neil Abercrombie's resignation on February 28,2010,to focus on his campaign for Governor of Hawaii in the 2010 gubernatorial election. Abercrombie planned not to run for re-election in 2010,and many of the candidates that were running for his open seat transferred to the special election. The election was held on May 22,2010,and Republican Charles Djou won,defeating five Democrats,four fellow Republicans,and four Independent candidates. The main reason for his win was because there were two Democratic candidates instead of one,which split the votes,allowing Djou to win,as Hawaii is an overwhelmingly Democratic state. This is to date the only time a Republican was elected to Congress from Hawaii since Pat Saiki in 1988;Djou volunteered on Saiki's 1988 campaign,and Saiki served as Djou's campaign chair in 2010.
The 2012 United States Senate election in Hawaii took place on November 6,2012,concurrently with the 2012 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic senator Daniel Akaka decided to retire instead of seeking a fourth full term. Democrat Mazie Hirono defeated Republican Linda Lingle in a rematch of Hawaii's 2002 gubernatorial election. This was the first open Senate seat in the state of Hawaii since 1976.
In Hawaii,the LGBT laws have been evolving for the past hundred years. In the pre-19th century,the influence of Polynesian culture led to a more open-minded state. After the first Christian missionaries began arriving in Hawaii,strict sodomy laws were enacted. Territory v. Bell (1958) was the last sodomy case argued in Hawaii. After the turn of the 20th century,LGBT issues began being taken to and decided by the Supreme Court. In 2013,Hawaii voted in favor of gay marriage,and marriage licenses began to be issued to LGBT couples.
Georgette "Jo" Jordan is the former Democratic representative of the 44th House District of the Hawaii House of Representatives,which includes Wai‘anae,Mākaha,Makua,and parts of Māʻili on the island of Oahu. Jordan was appointed to the seat by Governor Neil Abercrombie on January 19,2011 after the seat was vacated by Maile Shimabukuro,who filled Colleen Hanabusa's vacated Senate seat. Cedric Asuega Gates defeated incumbent Jo Jordan in the Hawaii House of Representatives District 44 Democratic primary.
Mitsuo Aoki,nicknamed Mits was an American theologian. He was born on a sugar-cane plantation near Hawi on the Island of Hawaii,and lived there until graduating high school. He then relocated to Honolulu for University training,and converted to Christianity from Buddhism. He studied at the Chicago Theological Seminary and the Union Theological Seminary. At the beginning of World War II,Aoki was living in the mainland US,and was subsequently escorted by FBI agents to Hawaii,rather than placed into Japanese American internment camps as were mainland persons of Japanese Ancestry.
Heather Haunani Giugni is an American filmmaker,politician,and a former representative in the Hawaii House of Representatives. She represented District 33,comprising the Honolulu neighborhoods of Aiea and Halawa. She was appointed to the legislature in February 2012,and left office in January 2013.
Hawaii's 2012 general elections were held on November 6,2012. Primary elections were held on August 11,2012.
The 2014 Hawaii gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the Governor of Hawaii,concurrently with a special election to Hawaii's Class III Senate Seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The 2014 United States Senate special election in Hawaii took place on November 4,2014,the general Election Day in the United States,concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Shan S. Tsutsui is an American politician who was the 13th lieutenant governor of Hawaii from 2012 to 2018. A member of the Democratic Party,he was previously a member of the Hawaii Senate from 2003 to 2012,and he served as President of the Senate from 2010 to 2012. On January 29,2018,Tsutsui announced his resignation,which was put into effect on January 31.
Robert Kiyoshi Fukuda was an American politician,lawyer and former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1959 to 1962.
Marcus R. Oshiro is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1994 to 2017. Oshiro consecutively served from November 1994 until 2012 in the District 40 and 39 seats,and 2012 until 2017 for District 46.
The 2022 Hawaii gubernatorial election took place on November 8,2022,to elect the next governor of Hawaii. Incumbent Democratic Governor David Ige was term-limited and ineligible to run for a third term. Incumbent lieutenant governor Josh Green was the Democratic nominee,and faced former lieutenant governor Duke Aiona,the Republican nominee. This marked the third time Aiona had been the Republican gubernatorial nominee,having previously run unsuccessfully in 2010 and 2014. Green won the election with 63.2% of the vote.
Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Hawaii Senate,representing the 5th district from 2013 to 2023. He previously represented the 9th district in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2009 to 2013.
