Neil Abercrombie

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Neil Abercrombie (born June 26, 1938) is an American politician who served as Hawaii's seventh governor from 2010 to 2014.

He is a member of the Democratic Party. Abercrombie, a graduate of Union College and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, was born in Buffalo, New York.

He began his political career in 1975, winning a seat in the Hawaii House of Representatives.

He served in the Hawaii House from 1979 to 1979, when he was first elected to the Hawaii State Senate.

Abercrombie was elected to his open seat in a special election in 1986 but not in a full term on the same day.

Heftel's terms were not completed until January 1987. Abercrombie completed Heftel's terms until 1987.

He served on the Honolulu City Council from 1988 to 1990 before returning to Congress in 1991.

Abercrombie served in the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2010, representing Hawaii's 1st congressional district, made up of urban Honolulu. Abercrombie announced his candidacy for governor in March 2009, with incumbent Governor Linda Lingle barred from running for reelection by term limits.

He received 59% of the vote in September 2010.

In the general election, Abercrombie defeated Republican nominee Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona. Abercrombie and his running buddy Brian Schatz defeated Aiona 57% of the population on November 2, 2010.

Abercrombie was elected to office on December 6, 2010.

During his tenure, he dealt with the aftermath of the Great Recession and labor union pensions.

Senator David Ige defeated him in the Democratic primary by 2014 in the Democratic primary.

Early life and education

Abercrombie was born in Buffalo, New York, on June 26, 1938, the son of Vera June (née Grader) and George Donald Abercrombie. His ancestry includes English, Irish, and German. James Abercrombie, his paternal grandfather, left Ireland for Canada; his son then immigrated to the United States. Abercrombie, who graduated from Williamsville High School (now Williamsville South High School), pursued sociology at Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1959. He came from Honolulu in September 1959 to study at the University of Hawaii in Mnoa, where he earned a master's degree in sociology and then a doctorate in American Studies. Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. befriended and attended classes with President Barack Obama's parents at the University.

Abercrombie, a locker desk clerk at the Central YMCA, was a waiter at Chuck's Steak House in Waik, the custodian at Mother Rice Preschool, construction apprentice program leader, elementary school teacher, and a college lecturer.

Personal life

Nancie Caraway, a political scientist and feminist writer at the University of Hawai'i, was married by Abercrombie in 1981. Mnoa's Globalization Research Center, Inc., a cultural research center.

Abercrombie is a huge powerlifter and has a stated aim of lifting 200 pounds more than his age on each birthday. He bench-pressed 272 pounds on his 72nd birthday.

The Caledonian Society of Hawaii named Abercrombie "Scot of the Year" in 2006.

Abercrombie lives in Honolulu's Manoa Valley neighborhood.

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Political career

Abercrombie was first elected by a democratic convention in 1970, attempting to win the Democratic nomination for the Senate. Abercrombie, who served for the Hawaii State House of Representatives from 1975 to 1979, ran for office from 1975 to 1979. A distinguishing feature of his early campaigns was a yellow Checker Taxi with his name and face painted on the side, which was fueled by a lack of funds for traditional campaigning methods. The taxi became a symbol of both his mainland appearance and his eccentric style. Abercrombie was elected to the Hawaii State Senate in 1979, where he served from 1980 to 1986. In a special election in September 1986 to finish Heftel's unexpired term, U.S. Representative Cecil Heftel resigned in July 1986 to run for governor of Hawaii. He lost the Democratic primary for a full two years to Mufi Hannemann, who lost to Republican Pat Saiki in the general election on the same day.

Abercrombie then set his sights on a seat on the Honolulu City Council. He won the lottery and served from 1988 to 1990.

Abercrombie ran for Congress once more at the end of his 1990 stint as a member of the Royal Society of Canada. He was reelected ten times. He secured 76% of the vote in 2008 in the 2008 election.

Abercrombie, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, held a generally liberal voting record. He endorsed and voted for the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act. He was one of 133 members of the House of Commons who voted against authorizing the 2003 invasion of Iraq on October 10, 2002. He sponsored H.R. On July 28, 2005, the 1312 (Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2005) was enacted in 2005. He criticized the Vatican for not naming torture as a sin.

Abercrombie is in favor of pro-choice, has voted against a ban on partial birth abortion, and has voted in favor of NARAL and Planned Parenthood 100% of the time between 2000 and 2006. Bills that would make it easier for Americans to vote, such as the motor voter bill, have been introduced by President Obama. He has fought for civil rights; both the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the American Library Association all endorse his voting record. He was one of the 67 representatives to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996, and he has also voted against a constitutional amendment that was introduced in 2006 to limit marriage to one man and one woman. In 2001, he was one of only nine senators not to vote for or against the USA PATRIOT Act. He voted against the extension of the law in 2005, calling it "a blank check to stymie civil rights." He enrolled as a co-sponsor of H.R. in 2007. 676, which would have developed a national health care service. On February 28, 2010, he resigned from Congress to focus on his governorship campaign.

Abercrombie served as chairman of the Armed Forces Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces and as a senior member of the Natural Resources Committee. He co-authored groundbreaking legislation that established public-private partnerships between the military and private developers to build, maintain, and maintain housing for military families.

Abercrombie declared his candidacy for governor of Hawaii on March 9, 2009. On December 11, 2009, he announced that he would resign from congress to focus on his gubernatorial campaign. Republican Charles Djou, the first Republican elected to Congress from Hawaii since Pat Saiki, was succeeded in his first Republican term in Congress.

Abercrombie's "A New Day in Hawaii" initiative was unveiled during his campaign, providing a map based on Hawaii's values and priorities. The initiative was the result of thousands of people's conversations and hours of study. Abercrombie met with business people, developers, economists, parents, researchers, researchers, educators, nonprofit executives, researchers, educators, veterans, conservationists, cultural consultants, and citizens of all sorts of backgrounds. On every island, he held scores of issue forums and meetings to hear from locals about their concerns and aspirations for Hawai'i.

Abercrombie defeated former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann in the 2010 Democratic gubernatorial primary election, 59.3% to 37.7%.

Abercrombie defeated Republican nominee Duke Aiona, 58% to 40.8%, to become Hawaii's seventh governor on November 2, 2010. In his victory address on November 3, he praised many people for his his achievement, including Dr. Mitsuo Aoki, the head of the Department of Religion at the University of Hawaii Manoa.

On December 6, 2010, Abercrombie was elected governor of Hawaii, the first gubernatorial victor of the 2010 election cycle to be sworn in.

Abercrombie, who was 72 when he was elected governor, was the country's oldest governor for less than a month. Jerry Brown of California, who is two months older than Abercrombie, lost the title to him on January 3, 2011.

When Abercrombie took office, he promised to end the probe into President Obama's birth certificate. According to a Abercrombie spokesperson, he'd like to ask the Attorney General's office what it could do. According to Abercrombie, state Attorney General David M. Louie warned that state privacy laws prevent the disclosure of "an individual's birth information without the person's consent" to individuals who do not have "a legitimate interest" in the law.

According to studies, Abercrombie was the country's least popular governor in October 2011, with a 30 percent approval rating.

A bill that legalizes civil unions was signed into law by Abercrombie in February 2011. Linda Lingle, his predecessor, had vetoed the bill. In 2013, he called the Hawaii Legislature to discuss a bill that recognizes same-sex marriage, which was signed into law by the governor on November 13.

Abercrombie had to appoint a replacement after longtime Senator Daniel Inouye's death. Despite Inouye's stated wish that he select Colleen Hanabusa, the state Democratic Party sent him a list of three finalists and he chose Lieutenant Governor Brian Schatz. Schatz is Hawaii's top senior citizen. Senator Leo Varadkar, a senator from the United States, has introduced a bill.

Abercrombie was appointed by Obama to the Council of Governors, and he served from 2012 to 2014. The council, composed of ten governors, is divided into three groups: the president has chosen ten governors to concentrate on national defense, homeland security, coordination and integration of state and federal military operations in the United States, as well as issues of mutual interest related to the National Guard.

Abercrombie was named to Obama's Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, a coalition of governors, mayors, and other influential figures that were supposed to develop recommendations on how the federal government could better support local readiness and resilience efforts in November 2013. Hawaii also signed the Majuro Declaration as a United States citizen. Climate Leader Ken Livingston proclaimed the state as the country's first sub-national government to sign in September of this year.

Abercrombie signed a bill in Hawai'i that legalized same-sex marriages. On December 2, 2013, the new law went into operation. Hawaii was the 15th state to allow same-sex marriage.

Abercrombie, the first incumbent governor of Hawaii, was defeated by state senator David Ige in a 56 percent primary election on August 9, 2014. The margin of defeat was the largest for any incumbent governor in the United States (although not the largest percentage of the vote). During the primary campaign, Abercrombie had the help of President Barack Obama and had outspent Ige $4.9 million to $447,000. Abercrombie's loss was due to his confrontational style of governing, his proposal to raise taxes in the aftermath of the Great Recession and the union pension reform process, as well as Brian Schatz' choice of Colleen Hanabusa to replace the Senate seat that had been vacant by Daniel Inouye's death, which was deemed unfair of Inouye's wishes. [1] Nonetheless, Schatz, who had been also endorsed by Obama in the 2014 Democratic Senate primary, defeated Hanabusa and went on to win the general election.

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