S. I. Hayakawa
United States Senator from California
In office January 2, 1977 – January 3, 1983
Preceded by	John V. Tunney
Succeeded by	Pete Wilson
9th President of San Francisco State University
In office November 26, 1968 – July 10, 1973
Preceded by	Robert Smith
Succeeded by	Paul Romberg
Personal details
Born	Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906-07-18)July 18, 1906 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Died	February 27, 1992(1992-02-27) (aged 85) Greenbrae, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Bronchitis caused by Alzheimer's disease
Political party	Democratic (before 1973) Republican (1973–1992)
Spouse(s)	Margedant Peters
Children	3
Education	University of Manitoba (BA) McGill University (MA) University of Wisconsin, Madison (PhD)
Academic background
Thesis	Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician, poet, essayist (1935)
Academic work
Discipline	English
Sub-discipline	Linguistics Semantics
Institutions	University of Wisconsin, Madison Armour Institute of Technology University of Chicago San Francisco State College
Notable works	Language in Thought and Action

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

• Media related to S. I. Hayakawa at Wikimedia Commons
• Samuel I. Hayakawa papers at the Hoover Institution Archives
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Australian General Semantics Society Archived 2021-03-09 at the Wayback Machine

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