Norm Mineta

CA Blue Book 1975

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-05-1974	Democratic	CD-13	78858	Win
11-02-1976	Democratic	CD-13	135291	Win
11-07-1978	Democratic	CD-13	100809	Win
11-04-1980	Democratic	CD-13	132246	Win
11-02-1982	Democratic	CD-13	110805	Win
11-06-1984	Democratic	CD-13	139851	Win
11-04-1986	Democratic	CD-13	107696	Win
11-08-1988	Democratic	CD-13	143980	Win
11-06-1990	Democratic	CD-13	97286	Win
11-03-1992	Democratic	CD-15	168617	Win
11-08-1994	Democratic	CD-15	119921	Win

Candidate Biography:

Norman Yoshio Mineta
Born: November 12, 1931 in San Jose, CA
Married: May Hinoki
Married: Danealia Darlene "Deni" Mineta
Children: David, Stuart, Robert, and Mark
Died: May 3, 2022 in Edgewater, MD

1962-1964: Member, San Jose Human Relations Commission
1966-1967: Member, San Jose Housing Authority
1967-1971: City Councilmember, City of San Jose
1971-1974: Mayor, City of San Jose
1995: Resigned from the United States House of Representatives on October 10.
2000-2001: U.S. Secretary of Commerce
2001-2006: U.S. Secretary of Transportation

• AWARD: Presidential Medal of Freedom (2006) 
• PLACENAME: The Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University was established in 1991
• PLACENAME: San Jose International Airport was renamed San Jose Mineta Airport to honor the Congressman.
• PLACENAME: ACR 25 (Lieber, 2008) designated State Highway 85 (except the segment between Prospect Road
  and Quito Road) as the Norman Y. Mineta Highway. 
• At five and a half years, Mineta was the longest serving US Transportation Secretary.
• Mineta and his family were sent to the Japanese internment camp at Heart Mountain [Wyoming] during World War II.