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Daniel Inouye

Daniel Ken "Dan" Inouye

United States Senator from Hawaii (1924–2012).

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Statements about Daniel Inouye

Academic Degree

Juris Doctor

Country of Citizenship

United States

Occupation

Politician
Military Personnel
Lawyer
 (1953 - )
Start Time
: 1953

Position Held

29 items
Member of the United States House of Representatives
 (8/21/1959 - 1/3/1963)
Replaced By
:
Thomas Gill
Start Time
: 8/21/1959
End Time
: 1/3/1963
President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate
 (6/28/2010 - 12/17/2012)
Replaced By
:
Patrick Leahy
Replaces
:
Robert Byrd
Start Time
: 6/28/2010
End Time
: 12/17/2012
United States Senator
 (1/3/1963 - 1/3/1965)
Replaces
:
Oren E. Long
Parliamentary Term
:
88th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1962 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1963
End Time
: 1/3/1965
United States Senator
 (1/3/1965 - 1/3/1967)
Parliamentary Term
:
89th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1962 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1965
End Time
: 1/3/1967
United States Senator
 (1/3/1967 - 1/3/1969)
Parliamentary Term
:
90th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1962 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1967
End Time
: 1/3/1969
United States Senator
 (1/3/1969 - 1/3/1971)
Parliamentary Term
:
91st United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1968 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1969
End Time
: 1/3/1971
United States Senator
 (1/3/1971 - 1/3/1973)
Parliamentary Term
:
92nd United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1968 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1971
End Time
: 1/3/1973
United States Senator
 (1/3/1973 - 1/3/1975)
Parliamentary Term
:
93rd United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1968 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1973
End Time
: 1/3/1975
United States Senator
 (1/3/1975 - 1/3/1977)
Parliamentary Term
:
94th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1974 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1975
End Time
: 1/3/1977
United States Senator
 (1/3/1977 - 1/3/1979)
Parliamentary Term
:
95th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1974 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1977
End Time
: 1/3/1979
United States Senator
 (1/3/1979 - 1/3/1981)
Parliamentary Term
:
96th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1974 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1979
End Time
: 1/3/1981
United States Senator
 (1/3/1981 - 1/3/1983)
Parliamentary Term
:
97th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1980 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1981
End Time
: 1/3/1983
United States Senator
 (1/3/1983 - 1/3/1985)
Parliamentary Term
:
98th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1980 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1983
End Time
: 1/3/1985
United States Senator
 (1/3/1985 - 1/3/1987)
Parliamentary Term
:
99th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1980 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1985
End Time
: 1/3/1987
United States Senator
 (1/3/1987 - 1/3/1989)
Parliamentary Term
:
100th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1986 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1987
End Time
: 1/3/1989
United States Senator
 (1/3/1989 - 1/3/1991)
Parliamentary Term
:
101st United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1986 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1989
End Time
: 1/3/1991
United States Senator
 (1/3/1991 - 1/3/1993)
Parliamentary Term
:
102nd United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1986 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1991
End Time
: 1/3/1993
United States Senator
 (1/3/1993 - 1/3/1995)
Parliamentary Term
:
103rd United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1992 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1993
End Time
: 1/3/1995
United States Senator
 (1/3/1995 - 1/3/1997)
Parliamentary Term
:
104th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1992 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1995
End Time
: 1/3/1997
United States Senator
 (1/3/1997 - 1/3/1999)
Parliamentary Term
:
105th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1992 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1997
End Time
: 1/3/1999
United States Senator
 (1/3/1999 - 1/3/2001)
Parliamentary Term
:
106th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1998 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/1999
End Time
: 1/3/2001
United States Senator
 (1/3/2001 - 1/3/2003)
Parliamentary Term
:
107th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1998 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/2001
End Time
: 1/3/2003
United States Senator
 (1/3/2003 - 1/3/2005)
Parliamentary Term
:
108th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
1998 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/2003
End Time
: 1/3/2005
United States Senator
 (1/3/2005 - 1/3/2007)
Parliamentary Term
:
109th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
2004 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/2005
End Time
: 1/3/2007
United States Senator
 (1/3/2007 - 1/3/2009)
Parliamentary Term
:
110th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
2004 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/2007
End Time
: 1/3/2009
United States Senator
 (1/3/2009 - 1/3/2011)
Parliamentary Term
:
111th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
2004 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
Start Time
: 1/3/2009
End Time
: 1/3/2011
United States Senator
 (1/3/2011 - 12/17/2012)
Replaced By
:
Brian Schatz
Parliamentary Term
:
112th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii Class 3 Senate Seat
Elected In
:
2010 United States Senate Election in Hawaii
End Cause
:
Death in Office
Start Time
: 1/3/2011
End Time
: 12/17/2012
Member of the United States House of Representatives
 (1/3/1959 - 1/3/1961)
Parliamentary Term
:
86th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii's At-Large Congressional District
Start Time
: 1/3/1959
End Time
: 1/3/1961
Member of the United States House of Representatives
 (1/3/1961 - 1/3/1963)
Parliamentary Term
:
87th United States Congress
Parliamentary Group
:
Democratic Party
Electoral District
:
Hawaii's At-Large Congressional District
Start Time
: 1/3/1961
End Time
: 1/3/1963

Place of Birth

Honolulu

Place of Death

Bethesda

Date of Birth

9/7/1924

Date of Death

12/17/2012

Member of Political Party

Democratic Party

Educated At

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
George Washington University Law School
 ( - 1952)
End Time
: 1952
University of Hawaiʻi System
 ( - 1950)
End Time
: 1950
President William McKinley High School

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Award Received

11 items
Medal of Honor
Bronze Star Medal
Purple Heart
Presidential Medal of Freedom
 (2013)
Conferred By
:
Barack Obama
Point in Time
: 2013
Four Freedoms Award – Freedom From Fear
Order of the Rising Sun, 1st Class
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Honorary Doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 (1989)
Point in Time
: 1989
Horatio Alger Award
World War II Victory Medal
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers
 (2011)
Point in Time
: 2011

Place of Burial

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

Manner of Death

Natural Causes

Given Name

Daniel
Ken

Native Language

English

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Spouse

Irene Hirano
 (5/24/2008 - 12/17/2012)
End Cause
:
Death
Start Time
: 5/24/2008
End Time
: 12/17/2012

Work Location

Washington, D.C.

Name in Native Language

Daniel Inouye

Religion or Worldview

Methodism

Family Name

Inouye
Inoue

Cause of Death

Respiratory Failure

Sex or Gender

Male

Writing Language

English

Start of Work Period

1943
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