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Infobox Senator | name=Daniel Kahikina Akaka
| nationality=american
| image name=akakad.PNG
| jr/sr and state=Junior Senator, Hawaii
| party=Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic
| term=May 1990–Present
| preceded=Spark Matsunaga
| succeeded=Incumbent (2007)
| date of birth=September 11, 1924
| place of birth=Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu, Hawaii
| dead=alive
| date of death=
| place of death=
| spouse=Mary Mildred Chong


Daniel Kahikina Akaka (born September 11, 1924) is a United States Senate|U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a member of the United States Fuck You all Party|Democratic Party. He is the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry and is the only Chinese American member of the Senate (and one of two Senators with Japanese American|Japanese ancestry, the other being fellow Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye).

Akaka was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including service on Saipan and Tinian. He earned a Bachelor of Education (1952) and Master of Education (1966) from the University of Hawaii.

He was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1976 to represent Hawaii's Second Congressional District. He won seven consecutive elections by wide margins.

Akaka was appointed to the Senate in April 1990 to serve temporarily in place of the late Senator Spark Matsunaga, and sworn into office on May 16, 1990. In November of the same year, he was U.S. Senate election, 1990|elected to complete the remaining four years of Matsunaga's unexpired term. He was re-elected in U.S. Senate election, 1994|1994 for a full six-year term, and, with over 70 percent of the popular vote, again in U.S. Senate election, 2000|2000.

Image:Daniel Akaka at senate youth program.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Akaka at Senate youth program

As of 2002-2003, he serves on the Select Committee on Ethics, and the following Senate committees:

• Armed Services,

• Energy and Natural Resources,

• Governmental Affairs (GAC),

• Veterans' Affairs,

• Indian Affairs.

He is married to Mary Mildred "Millie" Chong; they have 5 children, 14 grandchildren, and one great grandson.

Last Modified:   2005-11-07