Currently: U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie on December 11, 2009 announced that he will resign as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 1st District of Hawaii.  Read more from: http://www.house.gov/abercrombie/

Bio: Abercrombie first participated in a political campaign in 1970, seeking the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate. Unsuccessful, Abercrombie ran for the Hawaii State House of Representatives where he served from 1975 to 1979. He moved to the Hawaii State Senate, where he served from 1980 to 1986. After Representative Cecil Heftel resigned from the United States Congress in July 1986 to run for Governor of Hawaii, Abercrombie was elected to the House in a September 1986 special election to complete Heftel’s unexpired term. However, on the same day Abercrombie lost the Democratic primary for a full two-year term to Mufi Hannemann, who went on to lose to Republican Pat Saiki in the general election.^{[3] [Read more...]}