S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (born 1906)

S. I. Hayakawa

Canadian-American academic and politician (1906–1992)

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa 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.