Thomas Sakakihara
Thomas Tameichi Sakakihara (榊原為一, Sakakihara Tameichi, 1900–1989),
Political career
Sakakihara joined the Republican Party and first ran for political office in 1926.[5] He was elected to the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii in 1932, and served continuously then on for several terms.[6]
In 1941, Sakakihara was one of six Americans of Japanese ancestry serving in the territorial legislature. After the
Unlike fellow legislator and Honouliuli internee
Personal life and other activities
Sakakihara was born on July 17, 1900, in
As late as 1970, Sakakihara was listed as a field representative for the office of Senator Hiram Fong.[15] He did not speak out publicly about his internment until February 1976, when the Honolulu Star-Bulletin interviewed a number of former Honouliuli internees for a front-page story about President Gerald Ford's rescindment of Executive Order 9066.[9] He died on February 22, 1989.[2]
Notes
- ^ Kawazoe 1968, p. 319
- ^ a b "Thomas T. Sakakihara, 1989", Social Security Death Index, FamilySearch, retrieved 2012-10-24
- ^ a b c Inouye & Kormondy 2001, p. 43
- ^ a b "Political Sidelights" (PDF), Honolulu Record, vol. 3, no. 41, p. 3, 1951-05-10, retrieved 2009-12-23
- ^ a b c Whitehead 2004, p. 194
- ^ a b c Whitehead 2004, p. 79
- ^ a b Buckingham, Dorothea Dee (2009-02-23), "General Patton's Hawaiian 'Internment List'", Hawaii Reporter, retrieved 2009-12-23
- ^ "Japanese Arrested on Island of Hawaii: Army Holds 30 as Enemy Aliens or 'Suspected Sympathizers'", The New York Times, 1942-02-26, retrieved 2009-12-13
- ^ a b Whitehead 2004, p. 83
- ^ Aguiar 1997, p. 274
- ^ Whitehead 2004, p. 191
- ^ a b Inouye & Kormondy 2001, p. 44
- ^ Inouye & Kormondy 2001, p. 45
- ^ a b Kestenbaum 2009
- ^ US Senate 1970, p. 36
References
- Kawazoe Zen'ichi/川添善市 (1968), 移民百年の年輪「移植樹の花開く」 [100 years of immigration: The blooming of transplanted trees], Honolulu: 移民百年の年輪刊行会, OCLC 51503153
- Report of the Secretary of the Senate, Office of the Secretary, United States Senate, January–July 1970
- Aguiar, Gary George (1997), Party Mobilization, Class, and Ethnicity: The Case of Hawaii, 1930 to 1964, Universal Publishers, ISBN 978-0-9658564-3-0
- Inouye, Frank T.; Kormondy, Edward John (2001), The University of Hawai'i-Hilo: a college in the making, University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-2495-2
- Whitehead, John S. (2004), Completing the union: Alaska, Hawai'i, and the battle for statehood, American Histories of the Frontier Series, UNM Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-3637-8
- Kestenbaum, Larry (2009), "Index to Politicians: Saintclaire to Salmo", The Political Graveyard, retrieved 2009-12-23