Wallace Rider Farrington

Wallace Rider Farrington (born May 3, 1871 in Orono , Penobscot County , Maine , † October 6, 1933 ) was an American politician and the sixth Territorial Governor of Hawaii, who held the office between 1921 and 1929. Prior to that, he was an editor at both the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin .

Career

Wallace Farrington was born in Orono in 1871. He was a keen traveler, and so he came to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he decided to stay and started working as an editor for the Honolulu Advertiser . After three years, he quit the paper and started working on the Honolulu Star Bulletin . At that time, his interest in local politics grew, so that he was eventually run as a candidate for the office of mayor of Honolulu and was also elected.

Farrington hosted the Honolulu Ad Club in 1915. One of his invited guest speakers was Warren G. Harding , a United States Republican Senator from Ohio . Farrington introduced Harding as "the future President of the United States". Harding countered that if Farrington's prognosis were to come true, Farrington would be named governor of Hawaii.

Three months after Harding took office as President of the United States in 1921 , he kept his promise and named Farrington Territorial Governor of Hawaii. Farrington served as a Republican until late 1929 when he stepped down from public life. He died on October 6, 1933 due to a heart disease.

family

Farrington was the father of Joseph Rider Farrington , a member of the Hawaii Territorial Senate and a Territorial Delegate to the US Congress . He died in his office and was then buried next to his wife, Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington.

Honors

Farrington was commemorated with the dedication of Wallace Rider Farrington High School in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu. The school also adopted The Governors as its nickname and talisman in honor of the school's namesake. Also Farrington Street in the lower Manoa Valley, the Farrington Highway, which stretches from Pearl City to the Leeward Coast of Oʻahu , and Farrington Hall (demolished in the 1970s) at the University of Hawaii , Manoa, where he lived between 1914 and 1920 chairman of the UH Board of Regents were named after him.

literature

Coffman, Tom. The Island Edge of America: A Political History of Hawaii . University of Hawaii Press, 2003.
Pukui, Mary Kawena and Samuel Elbert. Place Names of Hawaii. UH Press, 1974: Born in Orono, Penobscot County, Maine in 1871.

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personal data
SURNAME	Farrington, Wallace Rider
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Orono , Maine
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 1933