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"Hawaiian Senator" Oren E. Long Hand Signed TLS Dated 1962 For Sale

Up for sale "Hawaiian Senator" Oren E. Long Hand Signed TLS Dated 1962.

4, 1889 – May 6, 1965) was an American politician who served as the tenth Territorial Governor of Hawaii from

1951 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party of Hawaii,

Long was appointed to the office after the term of Ingram Stainback. After statehood was achieved he served in

the United States Senate, one of the first two, along with Hiram Fong, to represent Hawaii in that body. Long was the

only non-Asian American U.S. Senator from Hawaii until the

appointment of Brian Schatz to the

position in 2012. Long was born in Altoona, Kansas and attended Johnson Bible College in Knoxville, Tennessee,

the University of Michigan,

and Columbia University in New York City. He first came to Hawaii in 1917 as a social worker in Hilo.

He then held various educational positions in the public

school system, eventually serving as a superintendent from 1933 to

1946. He was appointed Governor of the Territory of Hawaii by President of the United

States Harry Truman in 1951

and served until 1953. Long served in the Hawaii Territorial Senate from

1956-1959. On July 28, 1959 he was elected to one of the two Senate seats from

the newly formed State of Hawaii, and took office on August 21,

1959. The other Senator elected was Republican Hiram Fong. Long chose not to run for a full six-year term in

1962, and was succeeded by fellow Democrat and then-Rep. Daniel

Inouye, in January 1963. For his entire tenure Long was Hawaii's

Senior Senator, as he took office the same day with fellow Senator from new

state, Hiram Fong (with Long

having a seniority edge due to being former Governor) Long appeared as

a contestant on What's My Line? shortly after taking office. One of

the panellists Bennett Cerf recognised

him immediately and disqualified himself from the round. After three rounds of

questioning, the rest of the panel successfully guessed him to be the senator

from Hawaii. He

died[2] in 1965 after suffering an attack of asthmatic

bronchitis in Honolulu, Hawaii and was buried in Oahu Cemetery.

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