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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaSamuel Ichiye HAYAKAWA
(1906-1992)
Senate Years of Service:
1977-1983Party: RepublicanHAYAKAWA, Samuel Ichiye, a
Senator from California; born in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada, July 18, 1906; educated in the public schools of Calgary
and Winnipeg, Canada; received his undergraduate degree from the
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 1927; graduate degrees in
English from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1928 and
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1935; psychologist, semanticist,
teacher, and writer; instructor, University of Wisconsin 1936-1939
and at the Armour Institute of Technology 1939-1947; lecturer,
University of Chicago 1950-1955; professor, San Francisco State
College 1955-1958; president, San Francisco State College
1968-1973, becoming president emeritus in 1973; columnist, Register
& Tribune Syndicate 1970-1976; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate in 1976, and subsequently appointed on January
2, 1977, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John V.
Tunney, and served from January 2, 1977, to January 3, 1983; was
not a candidate for reelection in 1982; was a resident of Mill
Valley, Calif., until his death in Greenbrae, Calif., February 27,
1992.
Bibliography
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Hayakawa, Samuel I.
Language in Thought and Action. 1938. Enlarged ed. New York:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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