Mink, Patsy Takemoto

Mink, Patsy Takemoto
▪ 2003

      American politician (b. Dec. 6, 1927, Paia, Hawaii—d. Sept. 28, 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii), was the first Asian-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. A 1951 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, she was the first Japanese-American to practice law in Hawaii. She was elected to the Hawaii Territorial Legislature in 1956 and the Hawaii Senate in 1958. In 1964 she won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, where she remained until 1977. She lost a bid for a U.S. Senate seat in 1976, but as the result of a special election in 1990, she returned to the House of Representatives, where she served until her death. A liberal Democrat, she opposed the Vietnam War and promoted measures supporting civil rights, education, and labour. She was one of the authors of Title IX, which in 1972 mandated equal funding for women's academic and athletic programs in institutions receiving federal money.

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