David Kawānanakoa

David Kawānanakoa
Prince of Hawaiʻi
Spouse	Abigail Wahiʻikaʻahuʻula Campbell
Issue
Edward D. Kawānanakoa Abigail Kapiʻolani Kawānanakoa Lydia Liliʻuokalani Kawānanakoa
Full name
David Laʻamea Kahalepouli Kinoiki Kawānanakoa Piʻikoi
House	Kalakaua Kawananakoa
Father	David Kahalepouli Piʻikoi King Kalākaua (hānai)
Mother	Victoria Kekaulike Kinoiki Queen Kapiʻolani (hānai)
Born	February 19, 1868(1868-02-19) Honolulu, Oʻahu
Died	June 2, 1908(1908-06-02) (aged 40) San Francisco, California
Burial	June 21, 1908(1908-06-21)[1] Mauna ʻAla Royal Mausoleum
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Prince David Laʻamea Kahalepouli Kinoiki Kawānanakoa Piʻikoi (1868–1908), was the patriarch of the House of Kawānanakoa. He was in the line of succession to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi around the time of the kingdom's overthrow.

Life

Kawānanakoa was born February 19, 1868.^[2] David was the first child of his father High Chief David Kahalepouli Piʻikoi from Kauaʻi island, and his mother Victoria Kūhiō Kinoike Kekaulike, a noble from the district of Hilo who was later the royal governor of the island of Hawaiiʻi. His younger brothers were Edward Keliʻiahonui (1869–1887) and Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole (1871–1922). David's family name Kawānanakoa was developed personally for him, and his own descendants have taken it for their family and name of their monarchical Royal house.

He was granted the title of Prince and style of His Royal Highness in 1883 by King Kalākaua. He was declared the third heir (after then princess Liliʻuokalani and princess Kaʻiulani) to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi to avoid problematic royal elections. His mother was the sister of Queen Kapiʻolani, consort to Kalākaua. He was also King Kalākaua's first cousin; these relations gave prince Kawānanakoa his position in the succession order. In 1885 he was sent by the Hawaiian government to attend Saint Matthew's School, a private Episcopal military school in San Mateo, California. His two brothers would also attend.^[3]

On August 31, 1891, Queen Liliʻuokalani appointed him a member of her Privy Council.^[4] In 1893 the Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown, Kawananakoa became a supporter of the Royalist resistance and after the failed 1895 Counter-Revolution he was arrested for treason but due to lack of evidence he was released. In 1898 he announced his engagement to Kaʻiulani,^[5] but she died in 1899 before the wedding could take place.

Kawananakoa, 2nd from left, Liliuokalani, center, during boycott of annexation ceremony.

Kawānanakoa was one of five founders of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. He attended the 1900 Democratic National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri and was the first royal to attend a national presidential nominating convention, were he was successful in gaining affiliation between his party and the Democratic Party in a party vote at the convention to incorporate Hawaii. He voted to break a tie about importing a plank into the convention platform regarding free silver.

In 1902, Kawānanakoa married Abigail Wahiʻikaʻahuʻula Campbell who assumed the title of princess. Their children were Princess Abigail Kapiʻolani (1903–1961), Prince Edward David Kalākaua (1904–1953), and Princess Lydia Liliʻuokalani (1905–1969).

David Kawānanakoa died June 2, 1908 in San Francisco^[6] before his cousin Liliʻuokalani, and thus never became the official head of the former Royal House of Hawaiʻi. His son Edward instead succeeded, in 1917, in the royal claims of deposed Queen Liliʻuokalani, who had no children. After an elaborate funeral and parade, he was buried in the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii.^[7]

References

1. ^ Roger G. Rose, Sheila Conant and Eric P. Kjellgren. "Journal of the Polynesian Society". Polynesian Society. p. 273-304. http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_102_1993/Volume_102,_No._3/Hawaiian_standing_kahili_in_the_Bishop_museum%3A_An_ethnological_and_biological_analysis,_by_Roger_G._Rose,_Sheila_Conant_and_Eric_P._Kjellgren,_p_273-304/p1#. Retrieved 2011-9-18. 
2. ^ Henry Soszynski. "HH Prince David La'amea Kahalepouli Kawananakoa". web page on "Rootsweb". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~royalty/hawaii/i99.html. Retrieved December 26, 2010. 
3. ^ Agnes Quigg (1988). "Kalākaua's Hawaiian Studies Abroad Program". Hawaiian Journal of History (Hawaii Historical Society) 22: pp. 170–208. hdl:10524/103. 
4. ^ "Kawananakoa , David, Prince office record". state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASH012f/eff08168.dir/Kawananakoa,%20David%20Prince.jpg. Retrieved June 14, 2010. 
5. ^ "Princess Kaiulani Engaged; To Wed Prince David Kawananakoa of Hawaiian Royal Blood" (PDF). New York Times. February 12, 1898. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C04E3DA1638E433A25751C1A9649C94699ED7CF. Retrieved June 14, 2010. 
6. ^ "Death of Prince David Kawananakoa Yesterday: was Heir Presumptive of the Throne of Hawaii". The Hawaiian Gazette. June 5, 1908. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1908-06-05/ed-1/seq-2. Retrieved June 14, 2010. 
7. ^ "Pomp and Ceremony, the Church's Stately Office for the Dead, a Forest of Kahilis, Military and Civic Organizations, Combine to Create a great Pageant.". The Hawaiian Gazette: p. 3. June 23, 1908. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1908-06-23/ed-1/seq-3. Retrieved June 14, 2010. 

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Name	Kawananakoa, David
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Date of birth	February 19, 1868
Place of birth	Honolulu, Oahu
Date of death	June 2, 1908
Place of death	San Francisco, California