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Oct 19, 2005 · Yuen says Mink was carrying out the trash at his daughter's place when he collapsed and died. Gwendolyn Mink is a professor at Smith College. Yuen says John Mink hadn't been in ill health.
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Oct 19, 2005 · John and Patsy were remarkable partners, devoted to each other through their more than 50 years of marriage and their 40-year career in politics." U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawai'i, described Mink as a "fine person, sensitive and level-headed" and "the key ingredient in Patsy's success."
Patsy Mink honors Japanese-American lobbyist Mike Masaoka. Recorded July 25, 1991. Patsy Matsu Mink (née Takemoto; Japanese: 竹本 マツ, [1] December 6, 1927 – September 28, 2002) was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. She served in the United States House of Representatives for 24 years as a member of the ...
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Patsy Matsu Takemoto was born on December 6, 1927 in Paia, Hawaii. One of two children, her father, Suematsu Takemoto was a civil engineer. When she was a junior at Maui High School, she won her first election as class president. She graduated in 1944 as the valedictorian.
She successfully gained admission to the University of Chicago Law School and graduated in 1951. She and her husband, John Mink, returned to Hawaii, where she started her own law practice, becoming the first woman of Japanese-American ancestry to practice law in Hawaii. Mink began her political career in 1956, when she was elected to Hawaii’s ...
Mar 8, 2024 · In her first year she found the city difficult, not least because of the harsh winters. But playing bridge at International House one night after dinner, she met John Francis Mink, SM’51, a World War II veteran studying geology. “People just looked at her and wanted to be with her,” he said later, according to a biography.
Master File Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Personalities, World Events, and American Economic, Social, and Cultural Life, compiled ca. 1953 – ca. 1994. National Archives and Records Administration. This teaching resource is the life story of Patsy Mink, a 12-term congresswoman from Hawaii and coauthor of Title IX.
