# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiram-fong
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:22:34.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiram-fong"
name: "Hiram Fong"
slug: "hiram-fong"
description: "Hiram Leong Fong was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician from Hawaii. Born to a Cantonese immigrant sugar plantation worker, Fong was one of the first two senators for Hawaii after it became the 50th US state in 1959. He was the first Chinese American and first Asian American United States Senator, serving from 1959 to 1977, and to date he remains the only Republican U.S. senator from Hawaii."
tagline: "American politician (1906–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hiram_Fong.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1906-10-15"
deathDate: "2004-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.36361466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hiram Fong"
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    title: "Hiram Fong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hiram Fong"
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    title: "Hiram Fong"
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    title: "Hiram Fong"
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    title: "Hiram Fong"
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    title: "Фонг, Хирам"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump