Chuck Mau
Chuck Mau (January 10, 1907 - September 11, 1990) was a Chinese-American politician and jurist. Personal life Chuck Mau was born in Chinatown, Honolulu as the son of Chinese immigrants. His mother died of influenza in 1918, and his father operated a small business. He received a scholarship to go to Mills School (now Mid-Pacific Institute) and graduated with a law degree from the University of Colorado. In 1950, he received the University of Colorado Alumni Award. Career Chuck Mau was a founder of the modern Democratic Party of Hawaii and an early advocate of Hawaiian statehood. Working as a law clerk to justices of the Supreme Court of Hawaii from 1933 to 1936, Mau quickly was appointed to Deputy to the Attorney General of Hawaii, the first Asian-American to serve in the role. Eying a role in politics, he accepted an invitation from Juggie Heen to run for a role as Deputy Supervisor as a Democrat. He was elected to the Honolulu Board of Supervisors (now Honolulu City Council) and served from 1940 to 1946, and 1948 to 1950. There, he passed a bill for rent-control in an attempt to ease the effects of World War II. Mau was