Daniel Inouye

Daniel Ken Dan Inouye was a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1963 to 2012. He was a member of the Democratic Party, and he was President pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2010 until his death in 2012, making him the highestranking Asian American politician in U.S. history. Inouye also served as chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.

Daniel Inouye was born on September 7, 1924, in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of Hyotaro and Kame Inouye. He was a Nisei Japanese American, the son of a Japanese immigrant father and a mother whose parents had migrated from Japan. He grew up in the Bingham Tract, a ChineseAmerican enclave in the predominantly Japanese American community of M ili ili in Honolulu. Inouye graduated from Honolulus President William McKinley High School.

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