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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & University Archives
Title: Samuel I. Hayakawa Papers
Creator:
Hayakawa, Samuel I. (Ichiyé) (Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa)
Identifier/Call Number: MS-0020
Physical Description:
10.22 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1959-1982
Date (bulk): 1970-1982
Language of Material:
English
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The
Samuel I. Hayakawa Papers document Hayakawa's term as a United States Senator. The collection comes from Hayakawa's San Diego-based regional office,
one of five regional offices in California, and consists only of office records. The San Diego regional office covered the
counties of San Diego, Imperial Valley, Riverside, and San Bernardino. The records consist of biographical data on Hayakawa,
correspondence, invitations, office memos, press releases, reports, subject files, files on organizations and businesses,
and some confidential materials. This collection is organized into three series:
General Office Files,
Subject Files and Reports, and
Organizations and Businesses.
The
General Office Files document the day to the day operations of Hayakawa's San Diego regional office during his senatorial term (1977-1982). The
series contains a small amount of sporadic texts dating pre-1977, and a wide array of folders containing textual documents.
The series includes: biographical data, correspondence, invitations, legislation activities, news clippings, press releases,
reports, requests, speeches, awards, testimonies, weekly columns, and receipts. It is filed alphabetically by folder name.
The
Subject Files and Reports document major issues, projects, concerns, and needs addressed by Senator Hayakawa while in office. Most of the subject files
are on local issues, while some are on major national issues of various interests, such as abortion, nuclear weapons abolition,
and immigration. The series dates from 1965-1982, and is filed alphabetically by folder name.
The
Organizations and Businesses series documents information on local San Diego, national and federal organizations and businesses that were at some point
in contact with Hayakawa's San Diego regional office from 1976-1982. This series contains textual documents ranging from formal
reports to weekly newsletters. It is filed alphabetically by folder name.
I. General Office Files, 1957-1982
II. Subject Files and Reports, 1977-1982
III. Organizations and Business Files, 1977-1982
This collection is open for research.
The copyright interests in some of these materials have been transferred to or belong to San Diego State University. The nature
of historical archival and manuscript collections means that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish
must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. Permissions
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including
but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
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San Diego State University Library.
Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on July 18, 1906 and naturalized as a United States
citizen. Hayakawa, who was of Japanese decent, attended public schools in Calgary and Winnipeg. He received a B.A. in English
(University of Manitoba, 1927) an M.A. in English (McGill University, 1928), and a Ph.D. in English and American literature
(University of Wisconsin, 1935). After attaining his higher degrees, Hayakawa subsequently taught English at the University
of Wisconsin (1936-1939), Illinois Institute of Technology (1939-1947), the University of Chicago (1950-1955), and San Francisco
State College (1968-1973).
An internationally renowned semanticist, Hayakawa gained notoriety within the academic world with several notable publications
such as: Language in Thought and Action (1949) which went through four editions and was translated into ten languages, and
Symbol, Status and Personality (1963) which was translated into Swedish, German, Japanese and Spanish. Hayakawa was appointed
as President Emeritus of San Francisco State University 1973; the year the college had attained university status.
Hayakawa, previously Democrat, became a registered Republican in 1973. After placing a bid for senatorial office in 1976,
Hayakawa was elected to a six-year term representing California in the United States Senate beginning January 3, 1977. During
his term which ended January 3, 1983, Hayakawa served on the senate committees for Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; Foreign
Relations; and the Select Business Committee on Small Business. He was also a member of the U. S. Senate Republican Conference
and the Senate Republican Steering Committee.
Hayakawa earned a reputation for issuing unorthodox ideas and adhering to a philosophical process of thought. He was more
infamously known as a "sleeper senator" due to his occasional napping during senate meetings. His ideas were not always favorable
to fellow senators; nevertheless he was highly respected by his peers for his sharp intellect and wit.
Following the end of his term and an illustrious career which included numerous honorary degrees and accolades, Hayakawa retired
to his Mill Valley home in California where he resided with his wife Margedant until his death in Greenbrae, California on
February 27, 1992 at the age of 85.
1982-008
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Legislators--California--Sources
San Diego (Calif.)--Politics and government
Personal Papers
Hayakawa, S. I. (Samuel Ichiyé), 1906-1992--Archives