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unusual facts about Kingdom of Hawaii



Attorney General of Hawaii

It was created by Kamehameha III and was part of the administration of each successive monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Benjamin F. Angel

In 1853, his health having become impaired, he accepted an appointment as United States Consul at Honolulu, then in the Kingdom of Hawaii.

James Kānehoa

James Young Kānehoa (1797–1851) was a member of the court of King Kamehameha II and Kamehameha III during the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Robert Dampier

The ship was returning the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu to the Hawaiian Islands (known by the British as "Sandwich Islands"), after both died from measles during a visit to England.

Slavery in China

Mistreatment ranged from the near-slave conditions maintained by some crimps and traders in the mid-1800s in Hawaii and Cuba to the relatively dangerous tasks given to the Chinese during the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in the 1860s.


see also

Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa

She has a short role in Harry Turtledove's novel in Days of Infamy where she is offered the throne of a restored Kingdom of Hawaii.

Governor Cox

Keeaumoku II, a Governor of Maui under the Kingdom of Hawaii, known as "Governor Cox" by foreigners

Henry Carter

Henry A. P. Carter (1837–1891), American diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Henry Whitney

Henry Martyn Whitney (1824–1904), early journalist in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Justice Lee

William Little Lee (1821–1857), first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the Kingdom of Hawaii

Richard Stanley

Richard H. Stanley (1823–1875), American lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Thomas ap Catesby Jones

Hearing that British Captain Lord George Paulet had seized the Kingdom of Hawaii, he sailed there and arrived July 22, 1843.

Walter Gibson

Walter M. Gibson (1822–1888), English adventurer, Mormon missionary, and government official in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Widemann

Hermann A. Widemann, German businessman and Kingdom of Hawaii cabinet member