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Clarification: Akaka Memorial story

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The late Sen. Daniel Akaka\'s casket arrives at the state Capitol in Honolulu on Friday, May 18, 2018. Hawaii Army National Guard soldiers carried the senator\'s casket to the Capitol rotunda on Friday where Akaka will lie in state for 24 hours. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

HONOLULU – In a story on May 18, 2018, The Associated Press reported that former U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka was the first Native Hawaiian elected to Congress. Akaka was the first Native Hawaiian to serve in the U.S. Senate after Hawaii became a state, but other Native Hawaiians had been elected as delegates to Congress when Hawaii was still a U.S. territory.

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