Daniel Inouye

U.S. Congressperson

1924 – 2012

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Who was Daniel Inouye?

Daniel Ken "Dan" Inouye was a Medal of Honor recipient, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a United States Senator from Hawaii, a member of the Democratic Party, and the President pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2010 until his death in 2012, making him the highest-ranking Asian American politician in U.S. history. Inouye was the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.

A senator since 1963, Inouye was the most senior U.S. senator at the time of his death. He is the second-longest serving U.S. Senator in history after Robert Byrd. Inouye continuously represented Hawaii in the U.S. Congress since it achieved statehood in 1959 until the time of his death, serving as Hawaii's first U.S. Representative and later a senator. Inouye was the first Japanese American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and later the first in the U.S. Senate. Before then, he served in the Hawaii territorial house from 1954 to 1958 and the territorial senate from 1958 to 1959. He never lost an election in 58 years as an elected official. At the time of his death, Inouye was the second-oldest sitting U.S. senator, after Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey.

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Born
Sep 7, 1924
Honolulu
Also known as
  • Daniel Ken Inouye
  • Dan Inouye
  • Daniel K. Inouye
  • Senator Daniel Inouye
  • Daniel Ken "Dan" Inouye
  • Dan
Parents
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Methodism
Ethnicity
  • Japanese American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • George Washington University
  • University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • The George Washington University Law School
  • President William McKinley High School
Lived in
  • Honolulu
Died
Dec 17, 2012
Bethesda

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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