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Patricia Hatsue Fukuda was born in Hilo, Hawai'i on May 28, 1930, to Kazuo and Shizue Fukuda, the eldest of three girls. Her father was a tennis coach at Hilo High School and her mother was a seamstress. She graduated from Hilo High School in 1948 and went on to the University of Hawai'i, graduating in 1952, working as a stewardess to help finance her education. She became a schoolteacher, teaching at Punahou School and Kaimuki Intermediate and Kalani High Schools. She also taught in Toledo, Ohio, where she accompanied her husband, Stanley M. Saiki, for his medical school residency. The couple went on to have five children.\n </p>\n <p>\n Her road to a political career began with her dissatisfaction at the relative lack of autonomy teachers in Hawai'i faced. With other teachers, she worked with the Hawaii Government Employees Association to form a teacher's chapter and became its president. From there, she was elected to the 1968 Hawaii Constitutional Convention and won election to the State Legislature in 1968 as a Republican in her East Honolulu district, serving three two-year terms. In 1974, she won election to the State Senate, winning reelection in 1978. After an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor in 1982, she became chairperson of the state Republican Party. In 1986, she made history by winning election to Congress, winning 59% of the vote over Democratic opponent Mufi Hannemann, thus becoming the first Republican to represent Hawai'i in the statehood era. She won reelection in 1988, winning 55% of the vote in defeating Mary Bitterman. She was in Congress during the final debates on\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Redress_movement/\" title=\"Redress movement\">\n redress\n </a>\n and was an advocate of what would become the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988/\" title=\"Civil Liberties Act of 1988\">\n Civil Liberties Act of 1988\n </a>\n , helping to generate some Republican support for the measure. Though she largely supported the fiscal and foreign policy of the Reagan and Bush administrations, she held more liberal social views, for instance being pro-choice on the abortion issue.\n </p>\n <p>\n Saiki ran unsuccessfully for the Senate seat that had been held by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Spark_Matsunaga/\" title=\"Spark Matsunaga\">\n Spark Matsunaga\n </a>\n , losing to Daniel Akaka. She was subsequently named by George H.W. Bush to head the U.S. Small Business Administration. In 1994, she ran for governor, losing a three person race to Ben Cayetano. She has remained a visible presence in Hawaii Republican politics since.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Brian_Niiya/\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Flanagan, John. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://archives.starbulletin.com/2002/11/10/editorial/flanagan.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Talk Story: First There Was Pat.\n </a>\n \"\n <i>\n Honolulu Star-Bulletin,\n </i>\n Nov. 10, 2002.\n </p>\n <p>\n \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.pbshawaii.org/ourproductions/longstory_guests/saiki.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox: Pat Saiki—Former Hawaii Congresswoman.\n </a>\n \" Airdate, September 16, 2008. Transcript and audio on PBS Hawaii.\n </p>\n <p>\n \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://manoa.hawaii.edu/library/research/collections/archives/hawaii-congressional-papers-collection/patricia-f-saiki-papers/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n The Patricia F. Saiki Papers.\n </a>\n \" Archives & Manuscripts, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library.\n </p>\n <p>\n Saiki, Patricia. \"An AJA Woman in Politics.\"\n <i>\n The Hawai'i Herald\n </i>\n , Jan. 3, 2003, Women-8.\n </p>\n <p>\n \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/21149\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Saiki, Patricia Fukuda.\n </a>\n \" History, Art & Archive, United States House of Representatives.\n </p>\n <p>\n Saiki, Patsy Sumie.\n <i>\n Japanese Women in Hawaii: The First 100 Years\n </i>\n . Honolulu: Kisaku, Inc., 1985.\n </p>\n <p>\n Stone, Scott C. S.\n <i>\n Living Legacy: Outstanding Japanese Women of the 20th Century in Hawai'i\n </i>\n . Honolulu: Japanese Women's Society Foundation, 2002.\n </p>\n <p>\n Wakayama, Mary. \"Party Perspectives: Republican Party Chairman Pat Saiki.\"\n <i>\n The Hawaii Herald\n </i>\n , July 1, 1983, 1, 18, 13.\n </p>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240418160811\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.011 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.016 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 110/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 1386/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 169/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 9.480 1 -total\n 70.01% 6.637 1 Template:Databox-People\n 14.66% 1.390 1 Template:Published\n 14.38% 1.363 1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2557-0!canonical and timestamp 20240418160811 and revision id 35989\n -->\n </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n </i>\n Top\n </a>\n</div>", "categories": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/People/" ], "sources": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/sources/en-patriciasaiki-portrait-1/" ], "coordinates": {}, "authors": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/authors/Brian%20Niiya/" ], "ddr_topic_terms": [], "prev_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Pat%20Suzuki/", "next_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Patrick%20Nagatani/" }{ "url_title": "Patricia Saiki", "title_sort": "saikipatricia", "links": { "json": "