Gerald Michael Gabbard, commonly known as Mike Gabbard (born January 15, 1948), is an American businessman, musician and politician from the state of Hawaii. An impassioned social conservative who rose to prominence for his successful effort to ban the legalization of same-sex marriage through an amendment of the Constitution of Hawaii, Gabbard was elected to the Honolulu City Council in a nonpartisan race. In 2004, he joined the Republican Party of Hawaii to challenge Congressman Ed Case, a Democrat, for the Second Congressional District of Hawaii seat in the United States House of Representatives.
Gabbard was born in American Samoa to Benjamin Harrison Gabbard, Jr. and Agnes Yandall Gabbard.
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