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Irene Inouye: 1948-2020

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JAMM AQUINO / 2013

Irene Inouye, widow of former Sen. Daniel Inouye, speaks during a rally for Rep. Colleen Hanabusa for her 2014 campaign at Bishop Museum in Kalihi in 2013.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2008

U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye and his then-fiance Irene Hirano met with the crowd assembled to hear Chelsea Clinton speak at a democratic rally for Hillary Clinton at Ryan’s Grill at Ward Center in 2008.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2008

U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye and his then-fiance Irene Hirano met with the crowd assembled to hear Chelsea Clinton speak at a democratic rally for Hillary Clinton at Ryan’s Grill at Ward Center in 2008.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2008

U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye and his then-fiance Irene Hirano met with the crowd assembled to hear Chelsea Clinton speak at a democratic rally for Hillary Clinton at Ryan’s Grill at Ward Center in 2008.
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COURTESY OFFICE OF SEN. DANIEL INOUYE

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COURTESY OFFICE OF SEN. DANIEL INOUYE

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Irene Hirano, left, wife of US Senator Daniel K. Inouye, center, and gubernatorial candidate Neil Abercrombie are seen at a political rally in 2010 in Honolulu.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sesame Street's Elmo, second from left, meets with, from left, Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., National Children's Museum President and CEO Kathy Dwyer Southern, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, Irene Hirano Inouye, and Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., in Washington in 2011 after an announcement of a new partnership between the National Children's Museum and Sesame Street.
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2008

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President Barack Obama, center right, comforts Irene Hirano Inouye, visits with the widow of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, right, as first lady Michelle Obama embraces Inouey's son, Daniel Ken Inouye, Jr., left, during a memorial service for the late senator at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, in Honolulu. Inouye, D-Hawaii, was the first Japanese-American elected to both houses of Congress and the second-longest serving senator in U.S. history. He died Dec. 17 at the age of 88. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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STAR-ADVERTISER / 2008

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lt. General Francis Wiercinski, commander of the U.S. Army Pacific, escorts Irene Inouye, wife of Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, past his casket during his Memorial Service at the Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu in 2012.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama look on from left as Irene Hirano Inouye, the widow of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, is given the flag that was draped over her husband's casket during a memorial service at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in 2012.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Barack Obama, left, comforts Irene Hirano Inouye, the widow of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, during a memorial service for the late senator, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in 2012.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Irene Hirano Inouye, the widow of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, holds the flag that was draped over her husband's casket during a memorial service at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in 2012.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Irene Hirano Inouye, widow of Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, who was the second-longest-serving senator in history, looks back at the casket of her husband as he lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington in 2012.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Barack Obama talks with Irene Hirano, widow of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, in 2013.
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COURTESY BATH IRON WORKS

Irene Inouye attends a blessing for the ship bearing her late husband's name in 2019.

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