Former U.S. Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, who worked to restore the honor of Japanese Americans imprisoned during World War II, has died at age 93, according to a local organization where he served as an executive.
Simpson, who died Friday, was a cross-party ally of the late Democrat Norman Mineta, the first Japanese American to hold a U.S. Cabinet post.
As a boy, Simpson met Mineta, who had been taken to an internment camp. Together, they worked to restore the honor of incarcerated Japanese Americans and contributed to the enactment of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which included an apology from then-President Ronald Reagan and compensation to such Japanese Americans.
Simpson was born in Colorado in 1931. He served three terms as a U.S. senator from western Wyoming from 1979 to 1997.
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