Mayor of kalaupapa
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By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) - Loretta Fuddy, the Hawaii Health Department director who became involved in a national controversy over President Barack Obama's birthplace, died Wednesday in a small-plane crash off Molokai. She was 65.
She was acting director of the department starting in January 2011, until Gov. Neil Abercrombie appointed her to the position in March of that year. The following month, Obama and his personal attorney wrote letters to Fuddy, requesting two certified copies of his original birth certificate to make public in an attempt to end claims he was born outside the United States.
Fuddy approved an exception to a 2001 policy prohibiting photocopies of an original birth certificate.
"We hope issuing certified copies of the original certificate of live birth to President Obama will end the numerous inquiries related to his birth in Hawaii," she said in a statement at the time. She said she viewed the records and that they "further prove the fact that he was born in Hawaii."
Fuddy was traveling in a small commercial plane
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In some circles, it is considered racist to question the birth certificate and birthplace of Barack Obama. Yet for most of us ordinary citizens, you need a birth certificate to obtain a passport. The letter is considered a reasonable request, whereas the former is often held to be a symptom of blatant hate-filled racism.
The issue of where Obama is born is important because it’s a job requirement for a President to be a “natural-born citizen” of the United States and no President in our history has ever had as exotic a childhood as Barack Hussein Obama. He was born to an American citizen (born in flyover-state Kansas) and a British subject from Kenya. As a boy, young Barack spent some of his early childhood in Hawaii but then went to several years of elementary school in Indonesia. He returned to Hawaii and later the mainland United States, but it is rumored he spent some extended time in Pakistan during or around his college years. His mother, an anthropologist and employee of the Ford Foundation, was in Pakistan often as well—tricky country to enter in those days for A
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Loretta Jean Fuddy (April 12, 1948 – December 11, 2013) was an American health official and social worker from the U.S. state of Hawaii. Fuddy served simultaneously as the Director of the Hawaii Department of Health and the Mayor of Kalawao County from 2011 until her death. Under Hawaii state law, the Hawaii Department of Health administers Kalawao County, and the Director of the Hawaii Department of Health, who is appointed by the governor, simultaneously serves as the Mayor of Kalawao County while in office.
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