George Ariyoshi, a former three-term governor of Hawaii (a Pacific island state and the 50th US state) and the first person of Asian American descent to serve as a US state governor, has died at the age of 100. Born in Honolulu in 1926 to Japanese immigrant parents, Ariyoshi rose through Hawaii's Democratic Party ranks and led the state from 1973 to 1986, a period marked by rapid tourism growth and population expansion. Current Hawaii Governor Josh Green described him as a trailblazer whose legacy of public service "will endure for generations."