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Hiram Fong

1906 - 2004

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Hiram Leong Fong (born Yau Leong Fong; October 15, 1906 – August 18, 2004) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician from Hawaii. Born to a Cantonese immigrant sugar plantation worker, Fong became the first Chinese-American and first Asian-American United States Senator, serving from 1959 to 1977.At the 1964 Republican National Convention, Fong became the first Asian-American to receive delegate votes for his party's nomination for President of the United States. In the Senate, Fong supported civil rights legislation and eliminating ethnic barriers to immigration. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiram Fong has received more than 419,378 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hiram Fong is the 16,256th most popular politician (down from 13,460th in 2019), the 11,983rd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,152nd in 2019) and the 798th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hiram Fong ranks 16,256 out of 15,577Before him are Hubertus Heil, Rohullah Nikpai, Soraya Post, Maksim Tarasov, Tarun Gogoi, and Julien Nkoghe Bekale. After him are Alice Bah Kuhnke, Wolfgang Tiefensee, Farooq Abdullah, Joseph Jouthe, Maatia Toafa, and Youssef Chahed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Hiram Fong ranks 379Before him are Katsuo Takaishi, William Bendix, Mauri Rose, Pat O'Callaghan, William Empson, and Bea Benaderet. After him are Donald Woods, Barbara Bennett, Esmond Knight, Harry Hopman, Michael O'Shea, and Stuart Milner-Barry. Among people deceased in 2004, Hiram Fong ranks 286Before him are Big Boss Man, James Aloysius Hickey, Albert Paulsen, Suraiya, Willie Watson, and Henry Cockburn. After him are Richard Biggs, Rodger Ward, Eleanor Holm, Pacita Abad, Fernando Poe Jr., and Eddie Hopkinson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hiram Fong ranks 11,983 out of 18,182Before him are Jay Benedict (1951), Mac Davis (1942), L.A. Reid (1956), Carl Robie (1945), Ross Lynch (1995), and David Gallagher (1985). After him are Leroy Chiao (1960), Russell Hoban (1925), Ryan Adams (1974), Warrel Dane (1961), Taylor Sheridan (1970), and Johnny Horton (1925).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Hiram Fong ranks 798Before him are Antonio Villaraigosa (1953), Janet Napolitano (1957), Kathleen Sebelius (1948), Harry Hines Woodring (1887), George Dern (1872), and Charlie Baker (1956). After him are William Eustis (1753), Arthur Goldberg (1908), Rick Santorum (1958), Sam Nunn (1938), Nicholas F. Brady (1930), and Albert Gore Sr. (1907).