Margaret Inouye, the wife of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), died on Monday after a battle with colon cancer. She was 81.

The Inouyes had been married for nearly 57 years. "She was my inspiration, and all that I have accomplished could not have been done without her at my side," the former chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee said in a statement. "We were a team."

Margaret had been undergoing treatment at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where she died. Funeral arrangements are pending.

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Sen. Daniel Inouye - http://inouye.senate.gov