Wallace Rider Farrington

Wallace Rider Farrington ( 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 1921-1929. Previously, he was an editor at both newspapers Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Career

Wallace Farrington was born in 1871 in Orono. He was an avid traveler and so he came to stay and as editor of the Honolulu Advertiser also began to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he chose. After three years he left the newspaper and began at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on. At that time, his interest grew in local politics, so he was finally standing as a candidate for the office of the Mayor of Honolulu and was also elected.

Farrington organized in 1915 The Honolulu Ad Club. One of his invited guest speakers was Warren G. Harding, a Republican U.S. Senator from Ohio. Farrington asked Harding as "the future president of the United States " before. Harding replied when Farrington's prediction might be fulfilled, then Farrington would be appointed governor of Hawaii.

Three months after Harding in 1921 took office as U.S. President, he fulfilled his promise and appointed Territorial Governor of Hawaii to Farrington. Farrington was a Republican until the end of 1929 in the office, when he resigned from public life. Due to a heart condition, he died on 6 October 1933.

Family

Farrington was the father of Joseph Rider Farrington, a member of the Territorial Senate from Hawaii and territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress. He died in 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 The Governors also adopted as their pet names, as well as their talisman to honor the namesake of the school. The Farrington Street in lower Manoa Valley, the extending Farrington Highway from Pearl City to the Leeward Coast of Oahu, as well as the Farrington Hall ( demolished in the 1970s ) at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he 1914-1920 Chairman of the UH Board of Regents had been named after him.