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David Kalauokalani, Sr. (June 22, 1840 – July 20, 1915) was a Native Hawaiian politician and patriotic leader during the opposition to the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the annexation of Hawaii to the United States.


He served as the President of Hui Kālaiʻāina (Hawaiian Politicial Association) Co-lead with James Keauiluna Kaulia, the 1897–1898 Hawaiian Commission to Washington, DC, bearing Kūʻē Petitions.[1]

President and later President of the Home Rule Party of Hawaii

David Kalauokalani (Keawe)—community leadership, politics. David Kalauokalani (whose last name is sometimes given as “Keawe”), was the President of Hui Kālaiʻāina during the anti-annexation petition drive at the end of the last century. He was among those who took the petitions to Washington, D.C., and lobbied successfully to have the annexation treaty killed in the U.S. Congress. (Congress subsequently annexed Hawaiʻi by way of the Newlands Resolution, illegal under both U.S. constitutional and international law.) He was co-founder and president of the Independent Home Rule Party.[2]

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  1. ^ Silva 2004, pp. 123–163; Silva, Noenoe K. (1998). "The 1897 Petitions Protesting Annexation". The Annexation Of Hawaii: A Collection Of Document. University of Hawaii at Manoa. Archived from the original on December 30, 2016. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  2. ^ Dudoit 2002, p. 239.

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