Robert Matsui

Robert Takeo Matsui (, September 17, 1941 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician from the state of California. Matsui was a member of the Democratic Party and served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the congressman for California's 5th congressional district from 1979 until his death at the end of his 13th term. The Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse in Sacramento is named in his honor. Early life and education A third-generation Japanese American, Matsui was born in Sacramento, California, and was six months old when he and his family were taken from Sacramento and interned by the U.S. government at the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in 1942. Matsui graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963 with a BA in political science, and then from the Hastings College of Law in 1966. He founded his own Sacramento law practice in 1967.