Henry Alexander Baldwin

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

Early years

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

Political career

Baldwin was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1913 and 1921 he sat in the Senate of the territory. From 1915 to 1917 he was a colonel in the National Guard of Hawaii. After the death of Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Congress delegates Baldwin was elected to succeed him as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he took from March 22 1922 to March 3, 1923, the Hawaii Territory. A re-election he refused.

After returning to Hawaii Baldwin took his private business again, which now included the banking business. But he remained faithful to the policy. 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, which he was president in 1937. After that, Baldwin retired from politics.