Michael Honda
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 17th district |
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In office January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Sam Farr |
| Succeeded by | Ro Khanna |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 15th district |
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In office January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Campbell |
| Succeeded by | Eric Swalwell |
| Member of the California State Assembly from the 23rd district |
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In office 1996–2000 |
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| Preceded by | Dominic Cortese |
| Succeeded by | Manny Diaz |
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Michael Makoto Honda June 27, 1941 Walnut Grove, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Jeanne (Deceased 2004) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | San Jose State University (BA, MA) |
Michael Makoto Honda (born June 27, 1941) is an American politician and former educator. Initially involved in education in California, he first became active in politics in 1971, when San Jose mayor Norman Mineta appointed Honda to the city's Planning Commission. After holding other positions, Honda was elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors in 1990, and to the California State Assembly in 1996, where he served until 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in Congress from 2001 to 2017, and also served as the U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district (Silicon Valley) from 2013 until 2017.
A third-generation Japanese American ("sansei"), Honda was born in 1941 in Walnut Grove, California, the son of Fusako and Giichi Byron Honda. His grandparents were from Kumamoto prefecture and immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s, and both of his parents were born in California.
When he was one year old, he and his family were sent to Camp Amache, a Japanese American internment camp in southeastern Colorado. In 1953 his family returned to California, where they became strawberry sharecroppers in Blossom Valley in San Jose.
Honda started at Andrew P. Hill High School, then transferred to, and graduated from, San Josė High Academy. He entered San Josė State University, but interrupted his studies from 1965 to 1967 to serve in the United States Peace Corps in El Salvador, where he learned to speak Spanish. He returned to San Jose State, where in 1968 he received a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences and Spanish. He earned a master's degree in Education from San Jose State in 1974.
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