WASHINGTON - APRIL 12: Senate President Pro Tempore Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) pauses while speaking during an event at the World War II Memorial April 12, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)Daniel Inouye, the senior senator from Hawaii and the president pro-tempore of the Senate, died at Walter Reed Medical Center Monday evening. He was 88. Officials said the cause of death was respiratory complications. With Inouye's death, the SenateInouye served in Hawaii's congressional delegation since 1959, when Hawaii became a state. He was elected to the Senate in 1962, making him the most senior senator and the second longest serving in U.S. history, afterOn Monday, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) passed away due to respiratory complications at the age of 88. His last word before dying was, according to his office's press release, "Aloha." Inouye, the second longest serving senatorDaniel Inouye had been shocked, and very hurt to face anti-Japanese racism and hatred of 'Nips” after the war. But over the next decades he seemed more and more to mask his passion.
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