Duke Bainum is Honolulu City Councilman. Duke Bainum served in the state House of Representatives from 1990 to 1994. After serving in the House, Duke Bainum was a city council member from 1995 to 2003. Duke Bainum was elected to city council again in 2008.
A special election will have to be held to fill his seat. City council recently held a special election following the death of council member Barbara Marshall earlier this year. Ikaika Anderson won that election.
Duke Bainum ran for mayor in 2004, but lost to Mufi Hannemann. Duke Bainum is survived by his wife, Jennifer, and two sons, Z and Kona. A press release was sent out in Arkansas, where Duke Bainum was a managing director of a bank there.
It said the Duke Bainum died from an aortic aneurism, but the details are still coming in. Duke Bainum made an unsuccessful bid for Honolulu mayor in 2004 and was just re-elected to the City Council. Duke Bainum along with the other council members were to convene today to vote on the city budget.
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Duke Bainum, formally Mark Edmund Duke Bainum (July 21, 1952- June 9, 2009), is an American politician and physician. Duke Bainum served in the Hawaii State House of Representatives as a member of the Hawaii Democratic Party and was elected in a nonpartisan race to the Honolulu City Council and held various committee chairmanships during his tenure. In 2004, Duke Bainum ran for Mayor of Honolulu in the state of Hawaii, but lost to former White House Aide Mufi Hannemann. Duke Bainum is married to Jennifer Toma Bainum.
Duke Bainum born in Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC and raised in Arkansas by Irvin and Evea Bainum, Duke Bainum attended Southern College in Collegedale, Tennessee where Duke Bainum obtained his bachelor of science degree in 1974. Duke Bainum went on to study at the medical school of the University of Maryland at Baltimore where Duke Bainum became a medical doctor. In 1980, Duke Bainum moved to Honolulu, Hawaii to attend the University of Hawaii Surgical Residency Program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, completing his internship in 1982.
Duke Bainum entered elected politics assuming a seat on the McCully-Moiliili Neighborhood Board where Duke Bainum became its chairman from 1989 to 1990. Duke Bainum ran for the Hawaii State Legislature and won a seat in the Hawaii State House of Representatives, an office he served from 1990 to 1994. From 1995 to 2003, Duke Bainum became one of the most vocal members of the Honolulu City Council where Duke Bainum was appointed chairman of the Budget, Customer Service, Health and Safety, Policy, Public Works, Transportation and Zoning Committees.
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