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PrintEmailMore sharingHawaii's Daniel Inouye, Senate's second longest-serving member, dead at 88From Dana Bash and Ted Barrett, CNNDecember 18, 2012 -- Updated 0255 GMT (1055 HKT)if (typeof cnnArticleGallery=="undefined"){var cnnArticleGallery={};if(typeof cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList=="undefined"){cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList=[];}}var expGalleryPT00=new ArticleExpandableGallery();expGalleryPT00.setImageCount(10);expGalleryPT00.setAdsRefreshCount(3);//cnn_adbptrackpgalimg("Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years", 1);.cnn_html_slideshow_metadata > .cnn_html_media_utility::before{color:red;content:'>>';font-size:9px;line-height:12px;padding-right:1px}.cnnstrylccimg640{margin:0 27px 14px 0}.captionText{filter:alpha(opacity=100);opacity:1}.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:visited,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:link,.captionText a,.captionText a:visited,.captiontext a:link{color:#004276;outline:medium none}.cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{margin:0 auto;padding-right:68px;width:270px}
Daniel Inouye, a World War II veteran who represented Hawaii in the U.S. Senate for five decades, died on Monday, December 17. He was 88. See photos of the Medal of Honor recipient through the years:cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":true,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":1,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}Inouye, right, and Speaker of the House John Boehner listen to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard address Congress on March 9, 2011. Inouye was the second longest-serving U.S. senator in the chamber's history, winning his ninth consecutive term in 2010.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":2,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}Inouye, left, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama before their meeting on January 15, 2010, in Tokyo. Inouye was a senator for all but three of the Hawaii's 53 years as a state and had served as its first House member before that.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":3,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}Senate giants: Sen. Robert Byrd, right, of West Virginia shakes hands with Inouye on May 15, 2008. Byrd was the longest-serving senator in the chamber's history.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":4,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, embraces Inouye after awarding him the Legion d'honneur in Washington on November 6, 2007. Sarkozy decorated seven U.S .World War II veterans at the event.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":5,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}Inouye, center, is escorted by Army Gen. Charles Taylor while inspecting troops outside the Pentagon during the annual National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony September 14, 2004. Inouye lost an arm in World War II combat. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":6,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}Inouye, left, poses for photographers with Vice President Dick Cheney during the reenactment of a swearing-in ceremony on January 4, 2005.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":7,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, congratulates Inouye after awarding him the Congressional Medal of Honor on June 21, 2000, at the White House.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":8,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}Inouye, left, was chairman of the Senate committee that held hearings on the Iran-Contra affair. Here, he talks with House committee Chairman Lee Hamilton on July 13, 1987.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":9,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}Sen. Howard Baker of Tennesse (from left), Sen. Sam Irvin of North Carolina, Majority Council Sam Dash, Sen. Herman Talmadge of Georgia and Inouye listen to the testimony of James McCord, one of the Watergate burglers, on May 18, 1973.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":10,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}HIDE CAPTIONSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the years<<<
Inouye, right, and Speaker of the House John Boehner listen to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard address Congress on March 9, 2011. Inouye was the second longest-serving U.S. senator in the chamber's history, winning his ninth consecutive term in 2010.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":2,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}
Inouye, left, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama before their meeting on January 15, 2010, in Tokyo. Inouye was a senator for all but three of the Hawaii's 53 years as a state and had served as its first House member before that.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":3,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}
Senate giants: Sen. Robert Byrd, right, of West Virginia shakes hands with Inouye on May 15, 2008. Byrd was the longest-serving senator in the chamber's history.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":4,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, embraces Inouye after awarding him the Legion d'honneur in Washington on November 6, 2007. Sarkozy decorated seven U.S .World War II veterans at the event.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":5,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}
Inouye, center, is escorted by Army Gen. Charles Taylor while inspecting troops outside the Pentagon during the annual National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony September 14, 2004. Inouye lost an arm in World War II combat. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":6,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, congratulates Inouye after awarding him the Congressional Medal of Honor on June 21, 2000, at the White House.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":8,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}
Inouye, left, was chairman of the Senate committee that held hearings on the Iran-Contra affair. Here, he talks with House committee Chairman Lee Hamilton on July 13, 1987.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":9,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}
Sen. Howard Baker of Tennesse (from left), Sen. Sam Irvin of North Carolina, Majority Council Sam Dash, Sen. Herman Talmadge of Georgia and Inouye listen to the testimony of James McCord, one of the Watergate burglers, on May 18, 1973.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":10,"title":"Sen. Daniel Inouye through the years"}HIDE CAPTIONSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the yearsSen. Daniel Inouye through the years<<<
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He died of respiratory complications shortly after 5 p.m. at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, with his wife and son at his side.Inouye was hospitalized last week and had undergone procedures to regulate his oxygen intake.He won his ninth consecutive term in 2010 and was the second-longest-serving senator in the chamber's history, trailing only Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Inouye was a senator for all but three of Hawaii's 53 years as a state and had served as its first House member before that.Senators of both parties took to the chamber floor Monday to mourn his death, and President Barack Obama issued a statement describing Inouye as "a true American hero.""In Washington, he worked to strengthen our military, forge bipartisan consensus, and hold those of us in government accountable to the people we were elected to serve," Obama wrote. "But it was his incredible bravery during World War II -- including one heroic effort that cost him his arm but earned him the Medal of Honor -- that made Danny not just a colleague and a mentor, but someone revered by all of us lucky enough to know him. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Inouye family."Vice President Joe Biden, who served alongside Inouye in the Senate, recalled his "moral bravery" in the body. "He was one of the most honorable men I ever met in my life, and one of the best friends you could hope for. He was honest, and fiercely loyal, and I trusted him absolutely."var currExpandable="expand18";if(typeof CNN.expandableMap==='object'){CNN.expandableMap.push(currExpandable);}var mObj={};mObj.type='video';mObj.contentId='';mObj.source='politics/2012/12/17/bts-2011-senator-inouye-pearl-harbor.cnn';mObj.videoSource='CNN';mObj.videoSourceUrl='';mObj.lgImage="C:\Program Files\ABS\Auto Blog Samurai\data\aolop\The news\121218125120-bts-2011-senator-inouye-pearl-harbor-00010811-story-body.jpg";mObj.lgImageX=300;mObj.lgImageY=169;mObj.origImageX="214";mObj.origImageY="120";mObj.contentType='video';CNN.expElements.expand18Store=mObj;
2011: Sen. Inouye remembers Pearl HarborFellow Hawaiian Daniel Akaka choked up as he said, "It is very difficult for me to rise today with a heavy heart to bid aloha, aloha to my good friend, colleague, and brother."Tomorrow will be the first day since Hawaii became a state in 1959 that Dan Inouye will not be representing us in Congress. Every child born in Hawaii will learn of Dan Inouye, a man who changed the islands forever."Inouye enlisted in the U.S. Army shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In World War II, Inouye lost an arm charging machine gun nests in San Terenzo, Italy, earning him the Medal of Honor.He was of Japanese heritage and served in an Army unit made up of Japanese-Americans. His battalion was the most decorated unit of the war. Meanwhile, stateside, many Japanese-Americans were held during the war by the government in internment camps based on their race.Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, remembered his late colleague as a "unique, brave legislator" and as a fellow veteran who was injured in war.Inouye's unit was in "many of the most gruesome and difficult bloodlettings of the entire conflict," McCain said. "In fierce combat, Dan Inouye was gravely wounded on the battlefield. He was brought home ... as we all know, (he) lost his arm."What happened after that battlefield injury would lead to a long-standing friendship: Inouye was hospitalized alongside the second lieutenant who would also become a U.S. senator, Bob Dole.Inouye served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Commerce Committee, and was the first chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.As head of the Appropriations Committee, he defended the practice of earmarking funds for pet projects and brought millions to his home state.He gained national notoriety as a member of the Senate panel investigating the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.At the time of his death, Inouye was president pro tempore of the Senate and had held that position since the death of West Virginia's Robert Byrd in 2010. In that position, Inouye was third in the line of succession to the U.S. presidency, behind Vice President Biden and House Speaker John Boehner.Late Monday, the Senate approved a resolution giving Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid the authority to swear in Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, now the chamber's most senior Democrat, as the new Senate president pro tempore.Reid said in remembrance of Inouye, "If there was ever a patriot, Dan Inouye was that patriot." Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell described him as someone who "rarely called attention to himself but who lived a remarkable American life filled with dignity and grace of the true hero that he was."Inouye graduated from the University of Hawaii and the George Washington University School of Law.Asked recently how he would want to be remembered, the senator said: "I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did OK," according to his office.His last word was "Aloha," it said.Read more: People we lost in 20120Comments »PrintEmailMore sharingvar OB_permalink='http://edition.cnn.com'+location.pathname;var OB_langJS='http://widgets.outbrain.com/lang_en.js';var OB_widgetId='AR_1';var OB_Template="cnnedition";if (typeof(OB_Script)!='undefined'){OutbrainStart();}else{var OB_Script=true;var str="cnnad_createAd("100240","http://ads.cnn.com/html.ng/site=cnn_international&cnn_intl_pagetype=mmst&cnn_intl_position=607x95_adlinks&cnn_intl_rollup=politics&page.allowcompete=no¶ms.styles=fs","95","607");cnnad_registerSpace(100240,607,95);cnnad_createAd("526556","http://ads.cnn.com/html.ng/site=cnn_international&cnn_intl_pagetype=mmst&cnn_intl_position=336x850_rgt&cnn_intl_rollup=politics&page.allowcompete=no¶ms.styles=fs","850","336");cnnad_registerSpace(526556,336,850);
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The most senior US senator, Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, has died of respiratory problems at the age of 88.