List of presidents of the Hawaii Senate
The president of the Hawaii Senate is the presiding officer of the upper chamber of the Hawaii Territorial and Hawaii State Legislature.
Territorial Senate
Name | Period |
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Nicholas Russell | 1901 |
Samuel E. Kaiue | 1901 |
Clarence L. Crabbe | 1902–1904 |
D. Paul R. Isenberg | 1905 |
E. Faxon Bishop | 1907 |
William Owen Smith | 1909 |
Eric Alfred Knudsen | 1911–1913 |
Charles F. Chillingworth | 1915–1921 |
Lawrence M. Judd | 1923 |
Robert W. Shingle | 1925–1932 |
George P. Cooke | 1933–1935 |
Harry A. Baldwin | 1937 |
George P. Cooke | 1939–1941 |
Harold W. Rice | 1943 |
Eugene S. Capellas | 1945 |
Clement Gomes | 1947 |
Wilfred C. Tsukiyama | 1949–1954 |
William H. Heen | 1955–1957 |
Herbert K. H. Lee | 1959 |
After statehood
Sen. | Name | Party | Term of service |
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1st | William H. Hill | Republican | 1959–1962 |
2nd | Nelson K. Doi | Democratic | 1963–1964 |
3rd | Kazuhisa Abe | 1965–1966 | |
4th | John J. Hulten | 1967–1968 | |
5th | David C. McClung | 1969–1974 | |
6th | John T. Ushijima | 1975–1978 | |
7th | Richard S. H. Wong | 1979 – December 1992 | |
8th | James Aki | December 1992 – May 1993 | |
9th | Norman Mizuguchi | May 1993 – December 2000 | |
10th | Robert Bunda | December 2000 – January 2, 2009 | |
11th | Colleen Hanabusa | January 2, 2009 – November 6, 2010 | |
12th | Shan Tsutsui | November 6, 2010 – December 27, 2012 | |
13th | Donna Mercado Kim | December 28, 2012 – May 5, 2015 | |
14th | Ron Kouchi | May 5, 2015 – present |