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were widely defeated. In 1950, Duponte was elected to the House of
Representatives in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature after beginning her campaign late in the election season. As of 1951, she was the only woman Democrat in the Territorial Legislature. Her political views made her a controversial
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Territorial Senate. Her political views remained controversial and sometimes led her Democratic colleagues to openly disavow her. The same year, Duponte moved from Maui to Honolulu, separating from her husband Harold Duponte (then a Territorial
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and was awake, alert, and able to feed herself; she remained unable to walk and was paralyzed on her left side and partially paralyzed on her right. She was allowed to leave the hospital for short periods. Doctors reported that she seemed unaware of her suicide attempt as a result of
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of Maui's
Democratic County Committee. While in the Territorial House of Representatives, Duponte became a controversial figure as a result of her opinions about who should be appointed to legislative committees as well as her criticism of conditions at
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reported that she had come out of the coma, and that on
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for 14 years. Her 1948 firing made her a household name on Maui after she claimed that it was motivated by her husband's campaign to be
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and fathered a child. Her term in the Hawaii
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by shooting herself in the head. The attempted suicide took place shortly after Harold Duponte
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in addition to her position in the Territorial Senate. 600 women employees staged a one-day
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was not damaged by the gunshot wound in her brain, but she was largely
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Representative). Harold Duponte had recently fathered a child in an
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for over a decade before her eventual death, experiencing partial
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at the age of 61 or 63 on April 22, 1971 at Maluhia Hospital. A
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