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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—HawaiiSamuel Wilder KING
(1886-1959)
KING, Samuel Wilder, a
Delegate from the Territory of Hawaii; born in Honolulu, Island of
Oahu, Hawaii, December 17, 1886; attended St. Louis School at
Honolulu and Honolulu High School; was graduated from the United
States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., in 1910; served in the United
States Navy from 1910 until 1924, when he resigned with the rank of
lieutenant commander; engaged in the real estate and insurance
business in Honolulu in 1925; member of the board of supervisors of
the city and county of Honolulu 1932-1934; elected as a Republican
a Delegate to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1943); was renominated in
1942, but withdrew to accept a commission as lieutenant commander
in the United States Naval Reserve; was promoted to commander and
later to captain and served in the central Pacific area from
January 4, 1943, to February 21, 1946; delegate to the Republican
National Conventions in 1936, 1940, 1948, and 1952; member of
Governor’s Emergency Housing Committee in 1946; member of
Hawaii Statehood Commission in 1947 and chairman from 1949 to 1953;
president of constitutional convention in 1950; appointed Governor
of Hawaii by President Eisenhower and served from February 28,
1953, until his resignation July 31, 1957; died in Honolulu,
Hawaii, March 24, 1959; interment in National Memorial Cemetery of
the Pacific at Punchbowl, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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