Grant Ujifusa, who served as the legislative strategy chair of the Japanese American Citizens League’s redress effort from 1982-92, died on Oct. 21 in Lafayette Hill, Pa, the nonprofit’s Pacific Citizen reported. He was 82.

Ujifusa was among a team of many who advocated for President Ronald Reagan to sign the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. The bill granted $20,000 in redress and a presidential apology to eligible survivors of Japanese ancestry who had been imprisoned in U.S. concentration camps during World War II.

The Sansei was born Jan. 4, 1942 in Worland, Wyo. to Mary (Okugawa) and Tom Ujifusa. The family was not among those unjustly incarcerated during the war.

Ujifusa graduated from Harvard College in 1965, and earned his master’s degree in American history from Brandeis University and a degree in American civilization from Brown University.

He held a few jobs in publishing, and also worked for Reader’s Digest.

“In 1972, Ujifusa and Michael Barone co-founded ‘The Almanac of American Politics,’ which became an essential go-to resource not only for Washington, D.C. watchers, insiders, journalists and policy wonks but for politicians themselves. …

“It was for this reason, as Ujifusa noted in an oral history recorded by Densho, that he was approached by JACL heavyweights Mike Masaoka and Minoru Yasui to help” with the redress efforts, the P.C. reported.

In 2012, Ujifusa received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays from the Japanese government, in recognition of his advocacy for the redress bill.

According to the P.C., Ujifusa “is survived by his wife, Amy Brooks Ujifusa, their sons Steven Ujifusa (Alexandra Vinograd), Andrew Ujifusa (Jennifer) and John; and two grandsons (Isaac and Max); and sister, Susan Diamond.”