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    Hiram Leong Fong (born Yau Leong Fong; October 15, 1906 – August 18, 2004) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician from Hawaii. Born to a...
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  • Hiram Fong Jr. (October 13, 1939 – February 18, 2017) was an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the Hawaii House of Representatives...
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    expiring in 1965. It was won by Republican Hiram Fong. Frank Fasi, Territorial Senator (Democratic) Hiram Fong, former member of the Territorial Legislature...
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    served in the United States Senate, one of the first two, along with Hiram Fong, to represent Hawaii in that body. Long was the only non–Asian American...
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    Senator Clifford Case of New Jersey Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas Senator Hiram Fong of Hawaii Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland Governor George Romney of Michigan...
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    Republican U.S Senator Hiram Fong was re-elected to a second term in office, defeating Democratic U.S. Representative Thomas Gill. Hiram Fong, incumbent Senator...
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    Rockefeller 114 George W. Romney 41 Margaret Chase Smith 27 Walter Judd 22 Hiram Fong 5 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 2 The vice-presidential nomination went to little-known...
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    Honolulu's inner ring, and held that seat until 1976. That year, with Hiram Fong retiring, Matsunaga defeated Hawaii's other House representative, Patsy...
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    Inouye was the second Asian American senator, following Hawaii Republican Hiram Fong. Inouye was the first Japanese American to serve in the U.S. House of...
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    in Hawaii took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Republican Senator Hiram Fong was re-elected to a third term in office, narrowly defeating Democratic...
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    elected a Republican to represent the state in the U.S. Senate since Hiram Fong in 1970; since 1977, both of the state's U.S. Senators have been Democrats...
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    support of Michigan (George Romney), Minnesota (Walter Judd), and Hawaii (Hiram Fong). The electors in Alabama and Mississippi defeated Kennedy's slate. With...
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    elected senator and Governor in 1966 and 1968, respectively. Republican Hiram Fong had served as the inaugural Class 1 senator from the state of Hawaii since...
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    statehood in 1959. The state has elected just one Republican U.S. senator, Hiram Fong, who served from 1959 to 1977, and two GOP House members. The rest have...
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    Republican senator from Hawaii, Hiram Fong, and Democratic senators from Utah and Wyoming, Frank Moss and Gale W. McGee. Fong retired and the other two lost...
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    Republican candidate, future governor Claude R. Kirk Jr. Republican incumbent Hiram Fong was reelected to a second term, defeating Democratic Congressman Thomas...
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    performance in a U.S. Senate race in Hawaii where the Democrat won since Hiram Fong retired in 1976. Daniel Akaka, incumbent U.S. Senator and former U.S....
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  • 1945) Dennis Fong (born 1977) Edsel Ford Fong (1927–1984) Fong Kui Lun (born 1946) Fong Pak Lun (born 1993) Fong Sai-yuk Fong Sai-yuk Hiram Fong (1906–2004)...
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    Clifford Case of New Jersey Governor Daniel J. Evans of Washington Senator Hiram Fong of Hawaii (endorsed Nixon) Governor Wally Hickel of Alaska (endorsed Nixon)...
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  • the 8th Congressional district in Illinois Hiram Fong, United States Senator, namesake of the Senator Fong's Plantation & Gardens in Kaneohe Mazie Hirono...
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  • 1952) 1905 – C. P. Snow, English chemist and author (d. 1980) 1906 – Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (d. 2004) 1906 – Alicia Patterson, American...
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    [clarification needed] Hiram Fong* (鄺友良), native of Taishan county, Canton, was a 20th-century American politician. A true Horatio Alger legend, Fong was born into...
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    Hawaii took place on November 2, 1976. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Hiram Fong did not seek re-election to a fourth term. Democrat Spark Matsunaga won...
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  • Quinn won by 4,139 votes; in the Senate special elections Republican Hiram Fong won by 9,514 votes while Wilfred Tsukiyama was narrowly defeated by 4...
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    Hiram Fong, Hawaii's only Republican senator...
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    Russell Long, and the senior senator from Hawaii, Hiram Fong, and together they would present the Long Fong Spong Hong Kong Song Bill. His name was never...
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    of East Asian descent to run for President of the United States, after Hiram Fong and Patsy Mink. According to BBC, he was "one of the first and most recognizable...
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    Carlson 20 — — Arkansas governor Winthrop Rockefeller 18 — — Hawaii senator Hiram Fong 14 — — Harold Stassen 2 — — New York City mayor John V. Lindsay 1 — —...
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    second term over John Grady, Mayor of Belle Glade Incumbent Republican Hiram Fong retired instead of seeking re-election to a fourth term. Democrat Spark...
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    Smith of Maine Former Representative Walter Judd of Minnesota Senator Hiram Fong of Hawaii Former Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts Former...
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