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Daniel Kahikina Akaka (1924-2018) —
also known as Daniel K. Akaka —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, September
11, 1924.
Democrat. School teacher
and principal; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Hawaii, 1974; U.S.
Representative from Hawaii 2nd District, 1977-90; resigned 1990;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Hawaii, 1980,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
U.S.
Senator from Hawaii, 1990-; appointed 1990.
Congregationalist. Hawaiian
and Chinese
ancestry.
Died in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, April 6,
2018 (age 93 years, 207
days).
Interment at National
Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Island of Oahu,
Hawaii.
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William Richards Castle (1849-1935) —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, March
19, 1849.
Republican. Lawyer;
Attorney-General, Kingdom of Hawaii, 1876; member Hawaiian
legislature, 1878, 1886-88; president and attorney, Honolulu Gas Co.,
Ltd.
Congregationalist. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died June 5,
1935 (age 86 years, 78
days).
Interment at Kawaiaho
Church Cemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Sau Yee Chang (1896-1990) —
of Lihue, Island of Kauai, Kauai
County, Hawaii.
Born in Hanapepe, Island of Kauai, Kauai
County, Hawaii, November
19, 1896.
Republican. Dentist;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Hawaii
Territory, 1948,
1952;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Hawaii, 1960.
Congregationalist. Chinese
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners;
American
Dental Association.
Died September
13, 1990 (age 93 years, 298
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Clarence Hyde Cooke (1876-1944) —
also known as Clarence H. Cooke —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, April
17, 1876.
Republican. Banker;
president or vice-president of plantation
and sugar
companies; member of Hawaii
territorial House of Representatives, 1912-28; Speaker
of Hawaii Territory House of Representatives, 1923-24, 1927-28;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Hawaii Territory, 1924
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
Congregationalist.
Died August
23, 1944 (age 68 years, 128
days).
Interment at Kawaiaho
Church Cemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Sanford Ballard Dole (1844-1926) —
also known as Sanford B. Dole —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Punahou, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, April
23, 1844.
Lawyer;
President
of the Hawaii Republic, 1893-98; Governor
of Hawaii Territory, 1900-03; U.S.
District Judge for Hawaii, 1903-15.
Congregationalist.
Died, after a series of strokes,
in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, June 9,
1926 (age 82 years, 47
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Kawaiaho
Church Cemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Wallace Rider Farrington (1871-1933) —
of Hawaii.
Born in Orono, Penobscot
County, Maine, May 3,
1871.
Governor
of Hawaii Territory, 1921-29.
Congregationalist.
Died of heart
disease in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, October
6, 1933 (age 62 years, 156
days).
Interment at Oahu
Cemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Rider Farrington (1830-1897) and Ellen Elizabeth (Holyoke)
Farrington; married, October
26, 1896, to Catharine McAlpine Crane; father of Joseph
Rider Farrington (1897-1954); second cousin of Edward
Silsby Farrington; fourth cousin once removed of Calvin
Frisbie. |
| | Political family: Farrington
family of Honolulu, Hawaii (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Farrington High
School, in Honolulu,
Hawaii, is named for
him. — Farrington Street
and Farrington Highway,
in Honolulu,
Hawaii, are named for
him. — Farrington Hall auditorium
(built 1930, demolished in the 1970s), at the University
of Hawaii, Honolulu,
Hawaii, was named for
him. |
| | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Hiram Leong Fong (1906-2004) —
also known as Hiram L. Fong; Yao Leong
Fong —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, October
15, 1906.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of Herbert
Y. C. Choy; member of Hawaii
territorial House of Representatives, 1939-54; Speaker
of Hawaii Territory House of Representatives, 1949-54; served in
the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Hawaii Territory, 1952
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1956
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); U.S.
Senator from Hawaii, 1959-77; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Hawaii, 1960,
1964
(delegation chair), 1972
(delegation chair).
Congregationalist. Chinese
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions.
Died in Kahaluu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, August
18, 2004 (age 97 years, 308
days).
Interment at Oahu
Cemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Walter Francis Frear (1863-1948) —
also known as Walter F. Frear —
of Hawaii.
Born in Grass Valley, Nevada
County, Calif., October
29, 1863.
Republican. Circuit judge in Hawaii, 1893; justice of
Hawaii Republic supreme court, 1894-98; justice of
Hawaii territorial supreme court, 1900; Governor
of Hawaii Territory, 1907-13; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Hawaii Territory, 1912.
Congregationalist.
Died in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, January
22, 1948 (age 84 years, 85
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (b. 1961) —
also known as Barack Obama; "The Messiah";
"Renegade"; "The Loin
King" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, August
4, 1961.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state senate 13th District, 1997-2004; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 2004
(speaker),
2008;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 2005-08; resigned 2008; President
of the United States, 2009-17; received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2009.
United Church of Christ. Kenyan
ancestry.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives: Son
of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. and Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama; married,
October
18, 1992, to Michelle
LaVaughn Robinson. |
| | Cross-reference: Joe
Wilson — Philip
J. Berg — Rod
Blagojevich — Timothy
W. Jones |
| | Barack Obama Elementary
School (formerly J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School; renamed 2018),
in Richmond,
Virginia, is named for
him. |
| | Campaign slogan (2008): "Yes We
Can!" |
| | Campaign slogan (2008): "Change We Can
Believe In." |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books by Barack Obama: Dreams
from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance
(2004) — The
Audacity of Hope : Thoughts on Reclaimig the American Dream
(2006) |
| | Books about Barack Obama: Steve
Dougherty, Hopes
and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama — David Mendell,
Obama:
From Promise to Power — John K. Wilson, Barack
Obama: This Improbable Quest — Shelby Steele, A
Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't
Win — Joseph Vogel, The
Obama Movement: Why Barack Obama Speaks to America's
Youth — Jodi Kantor, The
Obamas — David Maraniss, Barack
Obama: The Making of the Man — Jonathan Alter, The
Promise: President Obama, Year One — Pete Souza, The
Rise of Barack Obama — Jonathan Alter, The
Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies — Chuck Todd, The
Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House |
| | Critical books about Barack Obama:
Webster Griffin Tarpley, Obama
- The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian
Candidate — Gordon Heslop, The
Hope of Audacity: Barack Obama, A Bad Choice — Edward
Klein, The
Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House — Michelle
Malkin, Culture
of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and
Cronies — David Limbaugh, The
Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the Republic —
David Limbaugh, Crimes
Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack
Obama — Dinesh D'Souza, The
Roots of Obama's Rage — David Freddoso, Gangster
Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington
Thugocracy — Stanley Kurtz, Radical-in-Chief:
Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American
Socialism — Jerome R. Corsi, The
Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of
Personality — Jack Cashill, Deconstructing
Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern
President — Kate Obenshain, Divider-in-Chief:
The Fraud of Hope and Change — Dinesh D'Souza, Obama's
America: Unmaking the American Dream — Dinesh D'Souza,
The
Roots of Obama's Rage — Phyllis Schlafly & George
Neumayr, No
Higher Power: Obama's War on Religious Freedom |
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Rudolph Pacarro (b. 1927) —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, October
6, 1927.
Democrat. Real estate
sales; member of Hawaii
state house of representatives 12th District, 1963-66.
Congregationalist. Filipino
ancestry. Member, Lions.
Still living as of 1967.
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Relatives: Son
of Frank Suan Pacarro and Juliana (Adorna) Pacarro; married, June 10,
1950, to Mabel Jean Cortezan. |
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