Hideko Mogami ( ja, 最上英子, 9 December 1902 – 16 October 1966) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946,Otsuka Kiyoe (2008
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''Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University'' and remained a member until 1949. She later served in the House of Councillors from 1953 to 1965 and as Deputy Secretary of State for Postal Affairs in 1957–1958.

Biography

Mogami was born in Haruna in 1902. She studied literature at Tokyo Women's University, and married , a reporter for ''Yorozu Choho''. He was elected to parliament in

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for the Constitutional Democratic Party. However, after World War II he was banned from politics. Mogami contested the 1946 general elections (the first in which women could vote) as a Japan Progressive Party candidate, and was elected to the House of Representatives.Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election
United States Department of State, 1946, p65 She was re-elected in

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as a

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candidate, but lost her seat in the 1949 elections. She subsequently stood for election to the House of Councillors in

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. Although she was unsuccessful, she ran again in

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as a

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candidate and was elected. The party merged into the

in 1954 and then the Liberal Democratic Party the following year. From October 1957 to June 1958 she served as Deputy Secretary of State for Postal Affairs. She was re-elected in

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, serving until

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. She died the following year. Her nephew , who she adopted in 1963, later also served in the House of Councillors.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mogami, Hideko 1902 births Tokyo Woman's Christian University alumni 20th-century Japanese women politicians 20th-century Japanese politicians Japan Progressive Party politicians Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Democratic Party (Japan, 1947) politicians Kaishintō politicians Members of the House of Councillors (Japan) Democratic Party (Japan, 1954) politicians Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians 1966 deaths