WASHINGTON — Family members and the Hawaii Congressional delegation unveiled a new portrait of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye at a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
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The portrait will be displayed just off the Senate floor in the Capital
It is the first portrait of a person of color in the U.S. Senate’s leadership portrait series
Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., attended the ceremony
Inouye was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1959, just after Hawaii achieved statehood, and served in the Senate from 1963 until his death in 2012
The portrait will be displayed just off the Senate floor in the Capital. It is the first portrait of a person of color in the U.S. Senate’s leadership portrait series.
