S. I. Hayakawa

S. I. Hayakawa
Hayakawa in 1981
United States Senator
from California
In office
January 2, 1977 – January 3, 1983
Preceded byJohn V. Tunney
Succeeded byPete Wilson
9th President of San Francisco State University
In office
November 26, 1968 – July 10, 1973
Preceded byRobert Smith
Succeeded byPaul Romberg
Personal details
Born
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa

(1906-07-18)July 18, 1906
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
DiedFebruary 27, 1992(1992-02-27) (aged 85)
Greenbrae, California, U.S.
Political partyRepublican (from 1973)
Other political
affiliations
Democratic (before 1973)
SpouseMargedant Peters
Children3
EducationUniversity of Manitoba (BA)
McGill University (MA)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (PhD)
Academic background
ThesisOliver Wendell Holmes: Physician, poet, essayist (1935)
InfluencesAlfred Korzybski
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish
Sub-disciplineSemantics
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison
Armour Institute of Technology
University of Chicago
San Francisco State College
Notable worksLanguage in Thought and Action

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Hayakawa will retire". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). (Los Angeles Times). October 13, 1972. p. 1.
  2. ^ "S.I. Hayakawa, 85, dies; challenged '60s radicals". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Los Angeles Times). February 28, 1992. p. 7A.