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Mike Gabbard
Gerald Michael "Mike" Gabbard (born January 15, 1948) is a Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate, representing the 19th District since 2006. He has social conservative political views and rose to prominence for his successful effort to pass an amendment to the Constitution of Hawaii in 1998 to give the state legislature "the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples". He is also a businessman and musician.
Gabbard, who was born in American Samoa, is the first person of Samoan descent to serve in the Hawaii Senate.
==Life and pre-political career==
Mike was the fourth of seven children born to Benjamin Harrison Gabbard, Jr. and Agnes Yandall Gabbard. He graduated from Choctawhatchee High School class of 1965 in Shalimar, Florida. He received his BA degree in English from Sonoma State University, and his master's degree in Adult Education with an emphasis in Community College Administration from Oregon State University. He and his wife Carol, who served from 2000 to 2004 on the Hawai'i State Board of Education, are the parents of five children and grandparents of six. They operate a small family business with several lines of natural health products. They also make and distribute Hawaiian Toffee Treasures.
In 1995, Mike Gabbard co-founded the nonprofit Stop Promoting Homosexuality America, which filed for the trade name Alliance For Traditional Marriage, "to educate the general public about the necessity of preserving traditional marriage". Gabbard served as president until the organization's involuntary dissolution in 2004.
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