Word: liliuokalani
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Hawaiian Overthrow President BILL CLINTON signed a resolution in 1993 apologizing for the U.S.'s deposing Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani in 1893, which soon led to annexation...
...delegate to the U.S. Congress, over Republican Governor William F. Quinn. Among the other winners in a Democratic sweep: Mrs. Helena Hale, 44, a niece of Dr. Ralph Bunche, who became Hawaii County chairman and the first woman to hold a top public office in the islands since Queen Liliuokalani...
...Liliuokalani is my Hoodoo...
Your interesting article on Hawaii in the March 23 issue is incomplete in omitting the happenings between 1893 and 1898. My recollection is that Hawaii was annexed, then dis-annexed, due to differences of opinion and understanding between Liliuokalani and President Grover Cleveland and U.S. Commissioner "Paramount" Blount. The latter acted too hastily. The Republicans made much of this to the tune of Little Annie Rooney...
Hawaii's last monarch was Queen Liliuokalani, the buxom, strong-willed sister of Kalakaua, and, like her brother, a cultivated personage (poet, musician, composer of the famed Aloha Oe). Tough-minded Liliuokalani tried to overthrow the constitution as Hawaii plummeted into the depression that followed President McKinley's punishing tariff law on sugar. Around the rugged Queen grew secret societies such as the Annexation Club, and finally, in 1893, a Committee of Safety took possession of the government office building, formed a republic, applied to the U.S. for annexation. Five years later, to the sound...