Yau Leong Fong was born in Honolulu, the seventh of eleven children of See Fong Lum and Sau Howe Fong. His father was a Cantonese immigrant sugar plantation worker. Fong became the first Chinese-American and Asian-American United States Senator from 1959 to 1977.
During World War II has was a Major in the United States Army Air Force and retired as a Colonel from the United States Air Force Reserve.
He is the only Republican to ever serve as Senator from the state of Hawaii, and the first Asian-American to receive delegate votes for the Republican party’s nomination for President of the United States.
He died of kidney failure in 2004, the last living former U.S. senator born in the 1900s decade.
Fong should be listed in the 1910 and 1920 census, but I can’t find him nor can various Fong family trees on Ancestry. This is the 1930 census.
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Sources
- Wikipedia.org
- Ancestry.com
- Onthisday.com
- Picryl.com
- Youtube.com
Famous People and Their First Census 