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S. I. Hayakawa  

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  • Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a professor of English semantics who was elected to the U.S. Senate for the state of California in 1976. He is known for having written the first amendment proposing the establishment of English as the official language of the United States. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Hayakawa, S. I. (1906–1992)]

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