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 held office from 1953 to 1957. Previously, he was a delegate of the Territory of Hawaii in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a member of the Republican Party and the first Hawaiian natives, who achieved the highest office in the territory.

Career

Samuel Wilder King was born on 17 December 1886 in Honolulu and was a citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii. A devout member of the Roman Catholic Church visited the King Saint Louis School. After his graduation there, King graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He also joined the U.S. Navy as an officer ( Commissioned Officer ), where he served 1910-1924. At the time of his release, he had reached the rank of Captain Lieutenant (Lieutenant Commander).

King returned in 1925 to his native city, where he pursued the real estate trade. He decided in 1932 to pursue a political career by running for his first public office and was elected. King was the next two years a member of the Board of Supervisors of Honolulu. 1934 King was elected as a delegate in the U.S. Congress, where until January 1943, he worked in Washington in January 1934. With the outbreak of the Second World War, King resigned from his post as CEO and took the naval service again, first as commander, then as captain. He retired in 1946 from the military service.

Again, King returned to his hometown, where he was appointed to a Subkabinett the Governor Administration. King a year in Emergency Housing Committee worked. After that he was appointed in 1947 to the Hawai'i Statehood Commission, to which he belonged until 1953. Then he was appointed in the same year, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Territorial Governor of Hawaii. He served until his resignation on July 31, 1957 at Iolani Palace. King died on March 24, 1959 in Honolulu, Hawaii shortly before was admitted as the 50th state in the Union. He was buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.