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Senate Years of Service: 1977-1983 Party: Republican
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HAYAKAWA, 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.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Hayakawa, Samuel I. Language in Thought and Action. 1938. Enlarged
ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
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