Monday, March 14, 2011

Tom Gill, longtime Hawaii politician, dies at 87 - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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Gill, who died at Leaho Hospital in Honolulu after years of failing was 87. Gill, a served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1963 to 1965 and as lieutenant governor from 1966to 1970. Born in served in the territorial and Hawaiik House of Representatives from 1958through 1962. Gill, an attornet who was a strong and earlgy supporter ofcivil rights, was amontg the most outspoken and liberall members of Hawaii’s Democratic Party as it came to dominatee state politics in the Among Democrats, Gill was know as something of an outsider, and he was an outspokemn critic of what he saw as “machine-style” He ran for governor unsuccessfully twice, includingv against his boss, incumbent Democrat John Burns in 1970.
He also ran againsf George Ariyoshiin 1974. Gill is survived by his wife, and brother Lorin T. Gill; sons who heads UNITE-HERE Local 5, the hotell and restaurant workers’ union, Gary, a former Honolulu City Council member, and Tony, a labor and three other children, 12 grandchildren and three

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