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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Buddhist Politicians</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Born in Pepeekeo, Island of Hawaii, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/HI-born.html">Hawaii County</a>, Hawaii, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/01-18.html">January 18, 1914</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; district judge in Hawaii, 1940-44; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/ofc/trsn.html">Hawaii territorial senate</a>, 1952-59; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/ofc/stsen.html">Hawaii state senate</a>, 1960-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Hawaii state supreme court</a>, 1967-74; appointed 1967. <b>Buddhist</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/asian-pacific.html">Japanese</a> ancestry. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fall</a> in his home, caused by a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, and died soon after, in Hilo <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Hilo, Island of Hawaii, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/HI-died.html">Hawaii County</a>, Hawaii, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/05-18.html">May 18, 1996</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 121 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Manshiro Abe and Matsuyo (Fujiwara) Abe; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/12-09.html">December 9, 1939</a>, to Haruko Murakami.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (b. 1938)</b> — also known as <b>Edmund G. Brown, Jr.</b>; <b>Jerry Brown</b>; <b>"Governor Moonbeam"</b> — of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif.; Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-born.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/04-07.html">April 7, 1938</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/CA.html">1968</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of California</a>, 1971-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 1975-83, 2011-; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/index.html">1976</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/index.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1992/index.html">1992</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from California</a>, 1982; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/CA.html">California Democratic state chair</a>, 1989-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/oakland.html">mayor of Oakland, Calif.</a>, 1999-2007; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/attygn.html">California state attorney general</a>, 2007-10. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>; later <b>Buddhist</b>. Still living as of 2019. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown3.html#567.74.03">Edmund Gerald Brown Sr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#526.38.33">Bernice Layne Brown</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown6.html#715.71.60">Kathleen Lynn Brown</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/06-18.html">June 18, 2005</a>, to Anne Gust; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown4.html#642.52.89">Harold C. Brown</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11370.html">Brown family</a> of San Francisco, California.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis5.html#099.85.33">Gray Davis</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/edmund-g-brown-jr/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry Brown">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/026/000023954">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113831">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books by Jerry Brown:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893163636/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1893163636&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Jerry Brown Reader</a> (2004)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Cora L. E. Christian</b> — also known as <b>Cora Christian</b> — of St. Croix, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VI/ZZ-lived.html">Virgin Islands</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; Independent candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of U.S. Virgin Islands</a>, 2002. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <b>Buddhist</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ama.html">American Medical Association</a>. Still living as of 2003. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/755/98.23.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="Abdul Hamid"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Sufi Abdul Hamid (1903-1938)</b> — also known as <b>Abdul Hamid</b>; <b>Eugene Brown</b>; <b>"The Black Hitler"</b>; <b>"The Harlem Hitler"</b>; <b>"Bishop Amiru-Al-Mu-Minim Sufi Abdul Hamid"</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Lowell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/01-06.html">January 6, 1903</a>. Self-styled <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">cleric</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">labor leader</a>; claimed to be from Egypt or Sudan; wore a turban and a green velvet cloak with gold braid; led picketing of stores in Harlem whose proprietors refused to hire African-American employees; conducted <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/protest.html">street rallies</a> in Harlem where he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">denounced Jews</a>; said he was "the only one fit to carry on the war against the Jews"; Americo-Spanish candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 17th District, 1933; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in October 1934; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried and found guilty</a> on misdemeanor charges of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/protest.html">making a public speech</a> without a permit, and selling books without a license, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to ten days in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">suspected</a> of inciting the 1935 riot in Harlem, which led to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">injunctions</a> against his activities; in January 1938, his estranged wife, Stephanie St. Clair, ambushed him outside his house, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot</a> at him five times, but he was not seriously hurt; founded the Buddhist Universal Holy Temple of Tranquility. <b>Buddhist</b> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/muslim.html">Muslim</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Killed, along with his pilot, when his Cessna J-5 airplane ran out of fuel and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html">crashed</a> near Wantagh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/07-30.html">July 30, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 205 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi Abdul Hamid">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=202761">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> New York Times, August 1, 1938</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Mazie K. Hirono (b. 1947)</b> — of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/HO-lived.html">Honolulu County</a>, Hawaii. Born in Fukushima, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JP-born.html">Japan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/11-03.html">November 3, 1947</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/ofc/sthse.html">Hawaii state house of representatives</a>, 1981-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii</a>, 1994-2002; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Hawaii, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/HI.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/HI.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/HI.html">2008</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Hawaii</a>, 2002; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Hawaii</a> 2nd District, 2007-. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <b>Buddhist</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/asian-pacific.html">Japanese</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Leighton Kim Oshima.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H001042">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412200">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazie Hirono">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/071/000122702">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Henry C. Johnson Jr. (b. 1954)</b> — also known as <b>Hank Johnson</b> — of Lithonia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/DK-lived.html">DeKalb County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/10-02.html">October 2, 1954</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/DK-officials.html">DeKalb County Commissioner</a>, 2001-06; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 4th District, 2007-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/GA.html">2008</a>. <b>Buddhist</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000288">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412199">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/008/000161522">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Shiro Kashiwa (1912-1998)</b> — of Hawaii. Born in Kohala, Island of Hawaii, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/HI-born.html">Hawaii County</a>, Hawaii, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/10-24.html">October 24, 1912</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/ofc/attygn.html">Hawaii state attorney general</a>, 1959-63; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/judicial.html#f">Judge of U.S. Court of Claims</a>, 1972-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit</a>, 1982-86. <b>Buddhist</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/asian-pacific.html">Japanese</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-phi.html">Phi Kappa Phi</a>. Died in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/HO-died.html">Honolulu County</a>, Hawaii, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/03-13.html">March 13, 1998</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 140 days</a>). 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