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Archive Home > 2009 > November > 21 > Calif. politician was sent to internment camp

Calif. politician was sent to internment camp

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
November 21, 2009

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Former state Assemblyman Nao Takasugi, who was sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II, has died. He was 87.

Takasugi, a Republican from Oxnard, spent six years in the Legislature before he was termed out of office in 1998. He had been the mayor of Oxnard for....

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