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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—HawaiiSpark Masayuki MATSUNAGA
(1916-1990)
Senate Years of Service:
1977-1990Party: DemocratMATSUNAGA, Spark Masayuki,
a Representative and a Senator from Hawaii; born in Kukuiula,
Kauai, Hawaii, October 8, 1916; graduated, University of Hawaii at
Honolulu 1941 and Harvard Law School 1951; United States Army
Reserve 1941; volunteered for active service in July 1941; wounded
twice in battle; released from active service as a captain in
December 1945; assistant public prosecutor, city and county of
Honolulu 1952-1954; member of Hawaiian statehood delegation to
Congress in 1950 and 1954; lawyer in private practice; member of
the Territorial legislature 1954-1959, serving as majority leader
1957-1959; author and poet; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962; reelected to the six succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1977); was not a candidate
for reelection in 1976 to the House of Representatives, but was
elected to the United States Senate; reelected in 1982 and again in
1988 and served from January 3, 1977, until his death in Toronto,
Canada, April 15, 1990; cremated, ashes interred in Punchbowl
National Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Scribner Encyclopedia of
American Lives; Matsunaga, Spark M., and Ping Chen.
Rulemakers of the House. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1976; U.S. Congress. Senate. Memorial Services. 101st
Cong., 2d sess., 1990. Washington: Government Printing Office,
1992.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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