Henry Alexander Baldwin

Henry Alexander Baldwin

Henry Alexander Baldwin (born January 12, 1871 in Maui , Hawaiʻi , † October 8, 1946 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1922 and 1923 he represented the Hawaii Territory as a delegate in the US House of Representatives .

Early years

Henry Baldwin first attended the public schools in what was then the Kingdom of Hawaii, then the Phillips Academy in Andover ( Massachusetts ) and then until 1894 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a result, he ran a sugar plantation in Hawaii, which had been a territory of the United States since 1898 .

Political career

Baldwin became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1913 and 1921 he sat in the Senate of the Territory. He was also a colonel in the Hawaii National Guard from 1915 to 1917. After the death of Congress delegate Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole , Baldwin was elected as his successor as a delegate in the US House of Representatives in Washington . There he represented the Hawaii Territory between March 22, 1922 and March 3, 1923. He refused to be re-elected.

After his return to Hawaii, Baldwin resumed his private business, which now also included banking. But he also remained loyal to politics. In 1933 he was elected to the Territorial House of Representatives and from 1934 to 1937 he was a member of the Senate of the Territory, of which he was President in 1937. After that, Baldwin withdrew from politics.

Web links

• Henry Alexander Baldwin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Alexander Baldwin in the database of Find a Grave (English)