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Session of the Hawaii Territorial Legislature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
| 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 session ran from February 18 until May 2, 1959. It passed 279 bills into law.
| ↓ | ||
| 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 | ||
| ↓ | ||
| 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 | ||
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