| LC control no. | n 85346384 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Matsunaga, Spark M., 1916-1990 |
| Variant(s) | Matsunaga, Sparky, 1916-1990 |
| Birth date | 1916-10-08 |
| Death date | 1990-04-15 |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators |
| Found in | His The Mars project, 1986: CIP t.p. (Spark M. Matsunaga) galley (U.S. Senator) LC data base 1/13/86 (hdg: Matsunaga, Spark M., 1916-) Memorial services ... 1992: t.p. (Spark M. Matsunaga) p. vii (Spark Masayuki Matsunaga) p. 1 (d. 04-15-90) Sparky, 2002: CIP t.p. (Spark M. Matsunaga) galley (Sparky Matsunaga) Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress website, May 31, 2018 (Matsunaga, Spark Masayuki, a Representative and a Senator from Hawaii; born in Kukuiula, Kauai, Hawaii, October 8, 1916; graduated, University of Hawaii at Honolulu 1941 and Harvard Law School 1951; United States Army Reserve 1941; volunteered for active service in July 1941; wounded twice in battle; released from active service as a captain in December 1945; assistant public prosecutor, city and county of Honolulu 1952-1954; member of Hawaiian statehood delegation to Congress in 1950 and 1954; lawyer in private practice; member of the Territorial legislature 1954-1959, serving as majority leader 1957-1959; author and poet; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962; reelected to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1977); was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 to the House of Representatives, but was elected to the United States Senate; reelected in 1982 and again in 1988 and served from January 3, 1977, until his death in Toronto, Canada, April 15, 1990; cremated, ashes interred in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii) |
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