What is S. I. Hayakawa?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = S. I. Hayakawa |image = SIHayakawa.jpg |jr/sr = United States Senator |state = [[California]] |term_start = January 2, 1977 |term_end = January 3, 1983 |predecessor = [[John V. Tunney]] |successor = [[Pete Wilson]] |office1 = 9th President of [[San Francisco State University]] |term_start1 = November 26, 1968 |term_end1 = July 10, 1973 |predecessor1 = Robert Smith |successor1 = Paul Romberg |birth_name = Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa |birth_date = {{birth date|1906|07|18}} |birth_place = [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], Canada |death_date = {{death date and age|1992|2|27|1906|7|18}} |death_place = [[Greenbrae, California|Greenbrae]], [[California]], U.S. |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] (before 1973)<br/>[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] (1973–1992) |spouse = Margedant Peters |death_cause = [[Bronchitis]] caused by [[Alzheimer's disease]] |children = 3 |education = [[University of Manitoba]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br/>[[McGill University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])<br/>[[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin, Madison]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) |module = {{Infobox academic |child = yes |thesis_title = Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician, poet, essayist |thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/301811415/ |thesis_year = 1935 |discipline = English |sub_discipline = Linguistics<br/>Semantics |workplaces = [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin, Madison]]<br/>[[Armour Institute of Technology]]<br/>[[University of Chicago]]<br/>[[San Francisco State College]] |notable_works = ''[[Language in Thought and Action]]''}} }} '''Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa''' (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]]-born American academic and politician. He was of [[Japanese Americans|Japanese]] ancestry. He was a professor of [[English language|English]].