Hiram Leong Fong (born Yau Leong Fong; [1] October 15, 1906 – August 18, 2004) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician from Hawaii. Born to a Cantonese immigrant sugar plantation worker, Fong was one of the first two senators for …

2006年8月18日 · Hiram Fong combined the American dream with the realities of business and politics. The seventh of eleven children born to Chinese immigrants, he worked his way through school, graduating from Harvard Law, and became the first Asian American to serve in the U.S. Senate (1959 - 1977).

Senator Hiram Fong became one of Hawaii’s first two U.S. senators in 1959, upon the state’s admission to the Union. The son of Chinese immigrants, Fong was also the first U.S. senator of Asian ancestry.

2018年5月11日 · Hiram Leong Fong. The son of immigrant plantation laborers, Hiram L. Fong (born 1907) became a self-made millionaire and the first person of Chinese descent to serve in the United States Congress. Hiram L. Fong capped a life spent blazing trails when he was sworn in as Hawaii's first United States Senator on August 24, 1959. Fong earned the ...

2025年4月2日 · Fong was a Republican who won the hearts and votes of Democratic-dominated Hawai'i to become America's first Asian-American U.S. senator, a father of four whose final years became entangled in a hurtful legal feud with his youngest son, a self-made millionaire several times over who watched his financial empire collapse into bankruptcy in his la...

6 天之前 · Hiram Fong was one of the truly legendary figures in recent Hawai'i history. To many of us, he was and always will be Mr. Hawai'i Republican. But Hiram was much more than that when you examine his life and his contributions to contemporary Hawai'i. Hiram Fong became the first U.S. senator of Asian-American ancestry.

The Senior Senator from Hawaii, he was re-elected on November 3, 1964 and on November 3, 1970. He retired January 2, 1977. As a Republican Senator Fong won 53.03% of the votes cast for U. S. Senator in the l964 election. His two opponents received 46.3% and 0.6%.

When the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library established its Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection in the mid 1990s, Senator Hiram L. Fong was the second legislator to donate his papers. In August 1998, over 1000 boxes, crates and trunks of documents, photographs, videos, and memorabilia at the senator’s home were loaded on three ...

4 天之前 · Fong was a Republican who won the hearts and votes of Democratic-dominated Hawai'i to become America's first Asian-American U.S. senator; a father of four whose final years became entangled in a hurtful legal feud with his youngest son; a self-made millionaire several times over who watched his financial empire collapse into bankruptcy.

2004年8月19日 · Hiram L. Fong, a son of Chinese immigrants who overcame poverty to become a millionaire businessman and the first Asian-American elected to the United States Senate, died Wednesday at his home...