APRIL 8, 1928

HAWAIIAN POLITICIAN KEAHIOWAILUKU (JOHN W. KALUA) DIED

Born circa 1846 on the island of Molokai, Kalua later moved to the island of Maui working as a lawyer. Kalua was in the House of Representatives (HOR) from 1880-88 & 1890-92 representing the districts of Lahaina (1882-86) and Wailuku (1880-98 & 1890-92). Initially with the Independent Party (Kuokoa), John, along with Joseph Nāwahī and George Washington Pilipō, led opposition in the HOR against the King Kalākaua and the National Party. After Kalākaua signed the 1887 Bayonet Constitution, reducing the king’s power & disenfranchising Native Hawaiian, Kalua joined the National Reform Party in opposition to the Reform Party which had pushed the Constitution. Following the fall of the monarchy in 1893, Kalua supported U.S. annexation, participated in a Constitutional Convention, and was one of five Native Hawaiian signatories of the Republic of Hawaii’s Constitution. He later served as Federal Judge (1894-1904), became a Republican, and served in the territorial HOR (1920-23). Kalua died in Wailuku.

Sources:

Dispatch No. 19 From Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster, 2/1/1893, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, Appendix II, Affairs in Hawaii - Office of the Historian.  Retrieved 10/9/2023, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, Appendix II, Affairs in Hawaii - Office of the Historian.

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Photo:  Author unknown, pre-1917. Public Domain. Source:  Siddall, John William, ed. (1917) Men of Hawaii, 1, Honolulu: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, p. 156