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Sen. Daniel Inouye honored in U.S. Capitol Rotunda - The Washington Post
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U.S. senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, second longest serving U.S. senator in history
12/17/2012
Daniel Inouye, Japanese-American from Hawaii is the second longest serving senator in the U.S. Senate in history. He served from 1962-1988, over 50 years. He was wounded in Italy serving with a nisei regiment and received the Medal of Honor, Purple Heart for his service in the war. He was born in 1924 to Japanese immigrants to Hawaii, in what he describes as "respectable poverty," his father serving as a civil clerk during the day and a waiter at night. He attended George Washington University Law School before being elected to Hawaii's territorial assembly in a 1954 Democratic election victory which swept out the Republicans and colonial era elites tied to sugar business interests.
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