S. I. Hayakawa

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa ( born July 18, 1906 in Vancouver, Canada, † 27 February 1992 in Greenbrae, California ) was an American psychologist, semanticist and politician. His work Language in Thought and Action, his major contribution to the introduction to the semantics, one of the classics in this field and has been translated into many languages ​​( German edition: Semantics - Language in thought and action, Black & Co, Darmstadt, 1964. )

Hayakawa attended the schools of his Canadian home in Calgary and Winnipeg. He made in 1927 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 1928 at McGill University in Montreal, his first statements. Subsequently, he obtained his doctorate in 1935 for Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. There then began his career in 1936 as a university teacher. He joined in 1939 as an instructor at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he remained until 1947; then he held teaching positions at the University of Chicago (1950-1955) and at the San Francisco State College ( 1955-1958 ). In San Francisco, he served from 1968 to 1973 as president of the then college, was from 1974, the present State University.

From 1970 to 1976 Hayakawa worked as a columnist for a newspaper syndicate. In 1976, he took up at the Primary of the Republican Party for the elections to the U.S. Senate in California. In a broad field of candidates he scored a vote share of 38.3 percent, the relative majority over rivals such as former Federal Minister Robert Finch, Congressman Alphonzo E. Bell and former Lieutenant Governor John L. Harmer. The actual election on November 2, 1976 Hayakawa won with 50.2 percent of the vote against Democratic incumbent John V. Tunney. He then represented the state of California on January 2, 1977 to January 3, 1983 at the Congress.

For re-election Hayakawa was not available in 1982. He sat down in Mill Valley to rest and died in February 1992 in Greenbrae.