Samuel Wilder King

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Samuel Wilder King

Samuel Wilder King (born December 17, 1886 in Honolulu , Hawaii , † March 24, 1959 ) was an American politician . He was the eleventh territorial governor of Hawaii and served in office from 1953 to 1957. Previously, he was a delegate of Hawaii Territory in the US House of Representatives . He was a member of the Republican Party and the first Hawaiian native to assume the highest office in the territory.

Career

Samuel Wilder King was born in Honolulu in 1886 and was a citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii . A devout member of the Roman Catholic Church , King attended the Saint Louis School . After graduating there, King studied at the Naval Academy in Annapolis , Maryland . He also joined the US Navy as an officer ( Commissioned officer a), where he served from 1910 to 1924. The time of his release, he had the rank of captain lieutenant ( Lieutenant Commander reached).

King returned to his hometown in 1925, where he went into real estate trading. He decided to pursue a political career in 1932 by running for his first public office and being elected. King served on the Board of Supervisors of Honolulu for the next two years . In 1934 King was elected as a delegate to the US Congress, where he served in Washington, DC from January 1934 to January 1943 . With the outbreak of World War II , King resigned as a delegate and resumed naval service, first as a commander, then as a captain . He retired from military service in 1946.

Again King returned to his hometown, where he was appointed to a sub-cabinet of the governor's administration. King served on the Emergency Housing Committee for a year . He was then appointed to the Hawai'i Statehood Commission in 1947 , of which he was a member until 1953. Then in the same year US President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him Territorial Governor of Hawaii. He served at 'Iolani Palace until his resignation on July 31, 1957 . King died in Honolulu on March 24, 1959, just before Hawaii became the 50th state to join  the Union. He was buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific .

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SURNAME King, Samuel Wilder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Honolulu , Hawaii
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1959
Place of death Honolulu , Hawaii