S. I. Hayakawa
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]
This article is about a United States Senator from California. For the actor and matinee idol from Japan, see Sessue Hayakawa.
S. I. Hayakawa
Robert Smith
Paul Romberg
February 27, 1992 (aged 85)
Greenbrae, California, U.S.
Republican (from 1973)
Democratic (before 1973)
Margedant Peters
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English
Linguistics
Semantics
Early life and education[edit]
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Hayakawa was educated in the public schools of Calgary, Alberta, and Winnipeg, Manitoba, and graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1927. He received his MA in English from McGill University in 1928 and his PhD in the discipline from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1935.[3]
Personal life[edit]
Hayakawa was a resident of Mill Valley, California. His daughter, Wynne Hayakawa, is a painter.[22]
He had an abiding interest in traditional jazz and wrote extensively on that subject, including several erudite sets of album liner notes. Sometimes in his lectures on semantics, he was joined by the respected traditional jazz pianist Don Ewell, whom Hayakawa employed to demonstrate various points in which he analyzed semantic and musical principles.
He died at a hospital in nearby Greenbrae, California, on February 27, 1992, at the age of 85, from complications of a stroke and bronchitis.[2]
