Very incomplete list! | |  Kazuhisa Abe (1914-1996) — of Hilo, Island of Hawaii,HawaiiCounty, Hawaii; Kaneohe, Island of Oahu,HonoluluCounty, Hawaii.Born in Pepeekeo, Island of Hawaii,HawaiiCounty, Hawaii,January18, 1914.Democrat.Lawyer;district judge in Hawaii, 1940-44; member ofHawaiiterritorial senate, 1952-59; member ofHawaiistate senate, 1960-66;justice ofHawaii state supreme court, 1967-74; appointed 1967.Buddhist.Japaneseancestry.Suffered afall inhis home, caused by astroke,and died soon after, in HiloMedicalCenter, Hilo, Island of Hawaii,HawaiiCounty, Hawaii,May 18,1996 (age82 years, 121days).Burial location unknown.| |  Relatives: Sonof Manshiro Abe and Matsuyo (Fujiwara) Abe; married,December9, 1939, to Haruko Murakami. |
| | Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (b. 1938) — also known asEdmund G. Brown, Jr.;Jerry Brown;"Governor Moonbeam" —of Los Angeles,LosAngeles County, Calif.; Oakland,AlamedaCounty, Calif.Born inSanFrancisco, Calif.,April 7,1938.Democrat.Lawyer;delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,1968;secretaryof state of California, 1971-75;Governor ofCalifornia, 1975-83, 2011-19; candidate for Democratic nominationfor President,1976,1980,1992;candidate forU.S.Senator from California, 1982;CaliforniaDemocratic state chair, 1989-91;mayorof Oakland, Calif., 1999-2007;Californiastate attorney general, 2007-10.Catholic;laterBuddhist.Still living as of 2019. | | Cora L. E. Christian — also known asCora Christian — of St. Croix,VirginIslands.Physician;Independent candidate forGovernor ofU.S. Virgin Islands, 2002.Female.Buddhist.Africanancestry. Member,American MedicalAssociation.Still living as of 2003.  | Sufi Abdul Hamid (1903-1938) — also known asAbdul Hamid;Eugene Brown;"TheBlack Hitler";"The Harlem Hitler";"Bishop Amiru-Al-Mu-Minim Sufi AbdulHamid" —of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Lowell,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,January6, 1903.Self-styledcleric;laborleader; claimed to be from Egypt or Sudan; wore a turban and agreen velvet cloak with gold braid; led picketing of stores in Harlemwhose proprietors refused to hire African-American employees;conductedstreetrallies in Harlem where hedenouncedJews; said he was "the only one fit to carry on the war againstthe Jews"; Americo-Spanish candidate forNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County 17th District, 1933;arrestedin October 1934;tried andfound guilty on misdemeanor charges ofmaking apublic speech without a permit, and selling books without alicense, andsentencedto ten days injail;latersuspectedof inciting the 1935 riot in Harlem, which led toinjunctionsagainst his activities; in January 1938, his estranged wife,Stephanie St. Clair, ambushed him outside his house, andshotat him five times, but he was not seriously hurt; founded theBuddhist Universal Holy Temple of Tranquility.Buddhist orMuslim.Africanancestry.Killed, along with his pilot, when his Cessna J-5 airplane ran out offuel andcrashednear Wantagh,NassauCounty, Long Island, N.Y.,July 30,1938 (age35 years, 205days).Burial location unknown. | | | Mazie K. Hirono (b. 1947) — of Honolulu, Island of Oahu,HonoluluCounty, Hawaii.Born in Fukushima,Japan,November3, 1947.Democrat.Lawyer;member ofHawaiistate house of representatives, 1981-94;LieutenantGovernor of Hawaii, 1994-2002; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from Hawaii,1996,2000,2008;candidate forGovernor ofHawaii, 2002;U.S.Representative from Hawaii 2nd District, 2007-.Female.Buddhist.Japaneseancestry. Member,PhiBeta Kappa.Still living as of 2014. | | Henry C. Johnson Jr. (b. 1954) — also known asHank Johnson — of Lithonia,DeKalbCounty, Ga.Born inWashington,D.C.,October2, 1954.Democrat.Lawyer;DeKalbCounty Commissioner, 2001-06;U.S.Representative from Georgia 4th District, 2007-; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Georgia,2008.Buddhist.Africanancestry.Still living as of 2014. | | Shiro Kashiwa (1912-1998) — of Hawaii. Born in Kohala, Island of Hawaii,HawaiiCounty, Hawaii,October24, 1912.Republican.Lawyer;Hawaiistate attorney general, 1959-63;Judgeof U.S. Court of Claims, 1972-82;Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1982-86.Buddhist.Japaneseancestry. Member,American BarAssociation;AmericanJudicature Society;PhiKappa Phi.Died in Honolulu, Island of Oahu,HonoluluCounty, Hawaii,March13, 1998 (age85 years, 140days).Burial location unknown.
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