Below is a List of Hawaii politicians from the monarchical, republican,

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eras of history who have articles devoted to them on Wikipedia. Also listed are politicians who were born and raised in Hawaii but have assumed political roles in other states or countries. __NOTOC__

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* Neil Abercrombie, US Congress *

Duke Aiona James R. "Duke" Aiona Jr. (born June 8, 1955) is an American politician and jurist who served as the tenth lieutenant governor of Hawaii under Linda Lingle from 2002 to 2010. A Republican, he also served both as an attorney and a judge for the sta ...

, lt. governor, judge *

Bernard Akana Bernard K. Akana (1920 or 1921 – April 12, 1990) was an American engineer and politician. He served as the Mayor of Hawaii County from 1988 until his death on April 12, 1990. Akana worked for the Hawaii Electric Light Company as a design plann ...

, mayor of Hawaii County * Daniel Akaka, US senator * D. G. Anderson, party chair *

Eileen Anderson Eileen Anderson (October 18, 1928 – November 3, 2021) was an American politician who served as Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii from 1981 to 1985. She was the first woman to hold the office. A Democrat, Anderson served in various positions in the cit ...

, mayor of Honolulu * James Apana, mayor of Maui * Alan Arakawa, mayor of Maui * George R. Ariyoshi, governor, lt. governor *

Charles N. Arnold Charles Neal Arnold (May 18, 1880 – October 28, 1929) was the Mayor of Honolulu from January 2, 1927, to January 1, 1929. He was a Republican. Background Arnold was born in ʻŌʻōkala, Kingdom of Hawai'i of Native Hawaiian and European de ...

, mayor of Honolulu

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Duke Bainum Mark Edmund "Duke" Bainum (July 21, 1952 – June 9, 2009) was an American politician and physician. Bainum served in the Hawaii State House of Representatives as a member of the Hawaii Democratic Party and was elected in a nonpartisan race to th ...

, city council member *

Henry Alexander Baldwin Henry Alexander Baldwin or Harry Alexander Baldwin (January 12, 1871 – October 8, 1946) was a sugarcane plantation manager, and politician who served as Congressional Delegate to the United States House of Representatives representing the Ter ...

, US Congress delegate *

Bryan J. Baptiste Bryan J. Baptiste (October 15, 1955 – June 22, 2008) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party. He served as mayor of the County of Kauai in Hawaii from 2002 until his death. Early life Baptiste was born in Lihue, Kaua ...

, mayor of Kauai *

Della Au Belatti Della Au Belatti (born March 14, 1974, in Manoa, Hawaii) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Hawaii House of Representatives since January 2007 representing District 24. Belatti served consecutively from January 2007 until 20 ...

, state representative * Hiram Bingham III, Connecticut governor, US senator *

Hiram Bingham IV Hiram "Harry" Bingham IV (July 17, 1903 – January 12, 1988) was an American diplomat. He served as a Vice Consul in Marseilles, France, during World War II, and, along with Varian Fry, helped over 2,500 Jews to flee from France as Nazi forc ...

, US vice consul to France * Neal Shaw Blaisdell, mayor of Honolulu *

James Henderson Blount James Henderson Blount (September 12, 1837 – March 8, 1903) was an American statesman, soldier and congressman from Georgia. He opposed the annexation of Hawaii in 1893 in his investigation into the American involvement in the political revolut ...

, US Minister to Hawai'i *

Keiko Bonk Keiko Cecilia Bonk (born 1954) is an American artist, musician and politician from Hawaii. Bonk co-founded the Hawaii Green Party and was the first person in North America elected to a partisan level office as a member of the Green Party of the ...

, county council member * Robert Bunda, senate president * John A. Burns, US Congress delegate, governor

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Romeo Munoz Cachola Romeo Munoz Cachola, commonly known as Romy Cachola, is a Democratic politician from the state of Hawaii and former member of the Hawaii State House of Representatives, representing House District 30 (Kalihi Kai, Sand Island, Hickam, Pearl Har ...

, city council member *

George R. Carter George Robert Carter (December 28, 1866 – February 11, 1933) was the second Territorial Governor of Hawaii, serving from 1903 to 1907. Early life Carter was born December 28, 1866, in Honolulu. His mother was Sybil Augusta Judd (1843–1906), ...

, governor *

Edward Espenett Case Edward Espenett Case (born September 27, 1952) is an American lawyer and Democratic politician serving as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district, which covers the urban core of Honolulu. He represented the 2nd distri ...

, US Congress *

Campbell Cavasso Campbell "Cam" Cavasso (born October 14, 1950), is an American politician, businessman and perennial candidate. A Republican, Cavasso served three terms in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1985 to 1991, and would later run for both chamb ...

, legislator *

Benjamin J. Cayetano Benjamin Jerome Cayetano (born November 14, 1939) is an American politician and author who served as the fifth governor of the State of Hawaii from 1994 to 2002. He is the first Filipino American to serve as a state governor in the United State ...

, governor, lt. governor * Charles Spencer Crane, mayor of Honolulu *

Elmer F. Cravalho Elmer Franklin Cravalho (February 19, 1926 – June 27, 2016) was an American politician and teacher. A member of the Democratic Party, Cravalho served as the first Mayor of Maui from 1969 to 1979 and the first Speaker of the Hawaii House of ...

, mayor of Maui

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Sanford Ballard Dole Sanford Ballard Dole (April 23, 1844 – June 9, 1926) was a lawyer and jurist from the Hawaiian Islands. He lived through the periods when Hawaii was a kingdom, protectorate, republic, and territory. A descendant of the American missionary ...

, chief justice, governor, overthrow conspirator, president of the republic *

John Owen Dominis John Owen Dominis (March 10, 1832 – August 23, 1891) was prince consort of the Kingdom of Hawaii as the husband of Queen Liliuokalani from January 29, 1891, until his death that year. Family His father was a sea captain named John Dominis ( ...

, prince consort, royal governor

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* Elizabeth Pruett Farrington, US Congress delegate *

Joseph Rider Farrington Joseph Rider Farrington (October 15, 1897 – June 19, 1954) was an American newspaper editor and statesman who served in the United States Congress as delegate for the Territory of Hawaii, Territory of Hawai'i. Education and military car ...

, US Congress delegate * Wallace Rider Farrington, governor, mayor of Honolulu * Frank Francis Fasi, mayor of Honolulu *

Joseph J. Fern Joseph James Fern (August 25, 1872 – February 20, 1920) was the first Mayor of Honolulu from 1909 to 1915 and again from 1917 to 1920. During and after his tenure, Fern became one of the most beloved political figures in the Territory of Ha ...

, mayor of Honolulu * Lynn Finnegan, state representative *

Hiram L. Fong Hiram Leong Fong (born Yau Leong Fong; October 15, 1906 – August 18, 2004) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician from Hawaii. Born to a sugar plantation Cantonese immigrant worker, Fong became the first Chinese-American and first ...

, US senator *

Galen Fox Galen Fox (born 1943) is a former Hawaii State Representative of the Republican Party who resigned from the Hawaii legislature on December 1, 2005, after being convicted of misdemeanor sex abuse charges. Biography Galen Fox was born in Hilo, Hawa ...

, state representative and convicted sex offender * Walter F. Frear, governor

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* Gerald Michael Gabbard, city council leader * Tulsi Gabbard, US Congress *

Brickwood Galuteria Brickwood M. Galuteria (born 1955), is an American politician, radio host, musician and actor. He was the Hawaii State Senator representing District 12 of Honolulu. He previously served as state chairman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii (2004� ...

, party chair * Thomas P. Gill, US Congress, lt. governor

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* Mufi Hannemann, mayor of Honolulu *

Jeremy Harris Jeremy Harris may refer to: * Jeremy Harris (politician), (born 1950), American politician, Mayor of Honolulu (1994–2004) * Jeremy Harris (American football) (born 1991) American football cornerback * Jeremy Harris (sailor) (born 1942) British ...

, mayor of Honolulu *

Cecil Heftel Cecil Landau Heftel (September 30, 1924 – February 4, 2010), popularly known as Cec Heftel, was an American politician and businessman from Hawai'i. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1986 for the First Congre ...

, US Congress * Mazie Hirono, lt. governor, US Congress *

Victor Stewart Kaleoaloha Houston Victor Stewart Kaleoaloha Houston, popularly known as Victor S. K. Houston (July 22, 1876 — July 31, 1959), was an American politician and naval officer who served in the United States Congress representing the Territory of Hawaii. Educatio ...

, US Congress delegate *

Natalia Hussey-Burdick Natalia Hussey-Burdick is an American politician and activist, who was elected to succeed Patrick Branco as State Representative for District 50 in the Hawaii House of Representatives during the state's 2022 General Election. Education and ear ...

, state representative

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Daniel Inouye Daniel Ken Inouye ( ; September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. Beginning in 1959, he was the first U.S. representative f ...

, US Congress, US senator * Virginia Isbell, Hawaii County Council Member *

Kim Coco Iwamoto Kim Coco Iwamoto (born May 26, 1968) is an American politician from Hawaii. She was one of the Democratic primary candidates for the position of Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii in the 2018 election. She previously served as a commissioner on the Ha ...

, Board of Education member

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* William P. Jarrett, US Congress delegate *

Gerrit P. Judd Gerrit Parmele Judd (April 23, 1803 – July 12, 1873) was an American physician and missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii who later renounced his American citizenship and became a trusted advisor and cabinet minister to King Kamehameha III. He ...

, Kingdom cabinet minister *

Lawrence M. Judd Lawrence McCully Judd (March 20, 1887 – October 4, 1968) was a politician of the Territory of Hawaii, serving as the seventh Governor of Hawaii, Territorial Governor. Judd is most well-known for his role in Massie Trial, the Massie Affair, ...

, governor

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* Kaahumanu, queen regent,

Kuhina Nui Kuhina Nui was a powerful office in the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1819 to 1864. It was usually held by a relative of the king and was the rough equivalent of the 19th-century European office of Prime Minister or sometimes Regent. Origin of the offic ...

David Kalakaua David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

, king *

Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Jonah or Jonas, ''Yōnā'', "dove"; gr, Ἰωνᾶς ''Iōnâs''; ar, يونس ' or '; Latin: ''Ionas'' son of Amittai, is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran, from Gath-hepher of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th cent ...

, prince, US Congress delegate * Kamehameha I, king *

Kamehameha II Kamehameha II (November 1797 – July 14, 1824) was the second king of the Kingdom of Hawaii. His birth name was Liholiho and full name was Kalaninui kua Liholiho i ke kapu ʻIolani. It was lengthened to Kalani Kaleiʻaimoku o Kaiwikapu o Laʻa ...

, king *

Kamehameha III Kamehameha III (born Kauikeaouli) (March 17, 1814 – December 15, 1854) was the third king of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1825 to 1854. His full Hawaiian name is Keaweaweula Kīwalaō Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa and then lengthened to Keaweaweula K� ...

, king *

Kamehameha IV Kamehameha IV (Alekanetero ʻIolani Kalanikualiholiho Maka o ʻIouli Kūnuiākea o Kūkāʻilimoku; anglicized as Alexander Liholiho) (February 9, 1834 – November 30, 1863), reigned as the fourth monarch of Hawaii under the title ''Ke Aliʻi ...

, king *

Kamehameha V Kamehameha V (Lota Kapuāiwa Kalanimakua Aliʻiōlani Kalanikupuapaʻīkalaninui; December 11, 1830 – December 11, 1872), reigned as the fifth monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Kingdom of Hawaiʻi from 1863 to 1872. His motto was "Onipaʻa": i ...

, king * Ruth Keelikōlani, princess, royal governor * Harry Kim, mayor of Hawaii County *

Samuel Wilder King Samuel Wilder King (December 17, 1886March 24, 1959) was the eleventh Territorial Governor of Hawaii and served from 1953 to 1957. He was appointed to the office after the term of Oren E. Long. Previously, King served in the United States House ...

, US Congress delegate, governor *

Eric Alfred Knudsen Eric Alfred Knudsen (July 29, 1872 – February 12, 1957) was an American writer, folklorist, lawyer and politician who grew up and lived on Kauai, Hawaii. His father was Valdemar Knudsen, a west Kauai sugar plantation pioneer. He married Ce ...

, Speaker of Hawaii House of Representatives *

John Adams Kuakini John Adams Kiiapalaoku Kuakini (1789–1844) was an important adviser to Kamehameha I in the early stages of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was responsible for contributing to the infrastructure among other changes in the Kona District during this era. ...

, governor of Hawaii island * Maryanne W. Kusaka, mayor of Kauai

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John Carey Lane John Awena-ika-lani-keahi-o-ka-lua-o-Pele Carey Lane, (July 22, 1872 – February 8, 1958) was Mayor of Honolulu from 1915 to 1917. Early years Born at Makao, Oʻahu, Lane was educated at Hauula School and St. Louis College. He held various ...

, mayor of Honolulu * Lili'uokalani, queen * Linda Lingle, governor, mayor of Maui, party chair *

Oren E. Long Oren Ethelbirt Long (March 4, 1889 – May 6, 1965) was an American politician who served as the tenth Territorial Governor of Hawaii from 1951 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Long was appointed to the office after the term o ...

, governor, US senator *

William C. Lunalilo Lunalilo (William Charles Lunalilo; January 31, 1835 – February 3, 1874) was the sixth monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii from his election on January 8, 1873, until his death a year later. Born to Kekāuluohi and High Chief Charles Kanaʻina, ...

, king

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Lincoln Loy McCandless Lincoln "Link" Loy McCandless (September 18, 1859 – October 5, 1940) was a United States cattle rancher, industrialist and politician for the Territory of Hawaii. McCandless served in the United States Congress as a territorial delegate. A ...

, US Congress delegate *

Charles J. McCarthy Charles James McCarthy (August 4, 1861 – November 26, 1929) was the fifth Territorial Governor of Hawaii and served from 1918 to 1921. McCarthy was born August 4, 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Charles McCarthy and Joana (McCarthy) McCar ...

, governor *

Eduardo Malapit Eduardo Enabore Malapit (April 6, 1933 – August 27, 2007) was an American Democratic politician who served as Mayor of Kauai, Hawaii. Elected for four consecutive two-year terms as mayor of Kauai beginning in 1974, he was the first Filipi ...

, mayor of Kauai *

Barbara Marshall Barbara Novak Marshall (March 5, 1944 – February 22, 2009) was an American television broadcast journalist and politician. She was elected three times to the Honolulu City Council in Honolulu, Hawaii following her retirement from broadcasting. ...

, city council member * Herbert T. Matayoshi, mayor of Hawaii County *

Spark M. Matsunaga Spark Masayuki Matsunaga ( ja, 松永正幸, October 8, 1916April 15, 1990) was an American politician and attorney who served as United States Senator for Hawaii from 1977 until his death in 1990. Matsunaga also represented Hawaii in the U.S. ...

, US Congress, US senator * Patsy Mink, US Congress

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*Emily I. Naeole, Hawaii county council member *

Joseph Nawahi Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

, Kingdom legislature and Minister of Foreign Affairs

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* Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States

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Lester Petrie Lester Petrie (1878–1956) was an American politician and Mayor of Honolulu from 1941 to 1947, including when the city was attacked on December 7, 1941, by the Japanese military The Japan Self-Defense Forces ( ja, 自衛隊, Jieitai; abbr ...

, mayor of Honolulu *

Lucius E. Pinkham Lucius Eugene Pinkham (September 19, 1850 – November 2, 1922) was the fourth Territorial Governor of Hawaii, serving from 1913 to 1918. Pinkham was the first member of the Democratic Party of Hawaii to become governor. Early life Pinkham ...

, governor *

Joseph B. Poindexter Joseph Boyd Poindexter (April 14, 1869 – December 3, 1951) was the eighth Territorial Governor of Hawaii and served from 1934 to 1942. Early life Joseph Boyd Poindexter was born in Canyon City, Oregon to Thomas W. and Margaret Pipkin Poind ...

, governor

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* William F. Quinn, governor

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Sean Reyes Sean David Reyes is an American lawyer and politician who has been the Attorney General of Utah since 2013. Appointed to the office by Governor Gary Herbert following the resignation of John Swallow, Reyes was subsequently reelected. Reyes is a ...

, Utah attorney general

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Patricia F. Saiki Patricia Hatsue Saiki (''née'' Fukuda; born May 28, 1930) is an American politician and former educator from Hilo, Hawaii. She served as a Republican in Congress from 1987 to 1991 and then as Administrator of the Small Business Administration un ...

, US Congress * Lehua Fernandes Salling, Hawaii Senate *

Calvin Say Calvin K.Y. Say (born February 1, 1952) is an American politician and former Speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives. Say currently serves as a member of the Honolulu City Council, representing Honolulu's 5th District. He was sworn in as ...

, house speaker *

Brian Schatz Brian Emanuel Schatz (; born October 20, 1972) is an American educator and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Hawaii, a seat he has held since 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, Schatz served in the Hawaii House o ...

, representative, Hawaii House of Representatives *

Ingram M. Stainback Ingram Macklin Stainback (May 12, 1883April 12, 1961) was an American politician. He served as the ninth Territorial Governor of Hawaii from 1942 to 1951. Early life Stainback was born in 1883 in Somerville, Tennessee. His father, Charles A. Stai ...

, governor *

John L. Stevens John Leavitt Stevens (August 1, 1820 – February 8, 1895) was the United States Minister to the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893 when he was accused of conspiring to overthrow Queen Liliuokalani in association with the Committee of Safety, led by ...

, US Minister to Hawaii, overthrow conspirator

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* Hannibal Tavares, mayor of Maui * Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrow conspirator, founder of the republic *

Wilfred Tsukiyama Wilfred Chomatsu "Tsuky" Tsukiyama (March 22, 1897 – January 6, 1966) was an attorney, Territorial Senator, and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. He was the first Japanese American elected to the Territorial Senate of Hawaii, and th ...

, Territorial Senator

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John D. Waihee III John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

, governor, lt. governor *

Robert William Wilcox Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox (February 15, 1855 – October 23, 1903), nicknamed the Iron Duke of Hawaii, was a Native Hawaiian whose father was an American and whose mother was Hawaiian. A revolutionary soldier and politician, he led uprisi ...

, US Congress delegate *

Albert Sydney Willis Albert Shelby Willis (January 22, 1843 – January 6, 1897) was a United States Representative from Kentucky and a Minister to Hawaii. Life Born in Shelbyville, Kentucky, Willis attended the common schools and graduated from the Louisvill ...

, US Minister to Hawaii * John Henry Wilson, mayor of Honolulu *

George Frederick Wright George Frederick Wright (January 22, 1838 – April 20, 1921) was an American geologist and a professor at Oberlin Theological Seminary, first of New Testament language and literature (1881 – 1892), and then of "harmony of science and revelati ...

, mayor of Honolulu *

Robert C. Wyllie Robert Crichton Wyllie (October 13, 1798 – October 19, 1865) was a Scottish physician and businessman. He served for twenty years as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Early life Wyllie was born October 13, 1798, in an area c ...

, Minister of Foreign Affairs

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Stephen K. Yamashiro Stephen Kei Yamashiro (July 15, 1941 – May 24, 2011) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the former Mayor of Hawaii, Mayor of Hawaii County, Hawaii, Hawaii County from 1992 to 2000. Yamashiro served on the Hawaii County council ...

, mayor of Hawaii County * John Young, governor of Hawai{{okinai island * Politicians