21st Hawaii Territorial Legislature

21st Hawaiʻi Territorial Legislature
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Seal of the Territory of Hawaii
Overview
Legislative body	Hawaii Territorial Legislature
Jurisdiction	Territory of Hawaii, United States
Senate
Members	15
President	George P. Cooke
Vice President	V. A. Carvalho
House of Representatives
Members	30
Speaker	Arthur A. Akina
Vice Speaker	Manuel Gomes Paschoal

The Twenty-First Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii was a session of the Hawaii Territorial Legislature. The session convened in Honolulu, Hawaii, and ran from February 20 until April 30, 1941. It was the final legislative session convened prior to the Attack on Pearl Harbor. ^[1]

Legislative session

The session ran from February 20 until April 30, 1941. It passed 334 bills into law. ^[2]

A special session ran from September 15 until November 1, 1941. It passed 98 bills into law. ^[3]

Act 19 (House Bill No. 58), signed by Governor Joseph Poindexter on April 11, 1941, made it a misdemeanor to label, advertise or offer for sale coffee as Hawaiian or Kona Coffee unless one hundred percent of such coffee was raised in the Territory. ^[4] The penalty included a fine of not more than $1,000 (around $20,000 in 2022), ^[5] and/or not more than one year imprisonment. ^{[note 1]}

Senators

↓
12	3
Republican	Democratic

Affiliation	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)			Total
	Republican	Ind	Democratic		Vacant
End of previous legislature (1939) [6]	11	1	3	15	0
Begin (1941)	12	0	3	15	0
Latest voting share	80%		20%

District	Senator	Party	County	Address
1	Sanji Abe	R	Hawaiʻi	Hilo
	V. A. Carvalho	R
	William H. Hill	R
	Charles H. Silva	R		Kohala
2	George P. Cooke [note 2]	R	Maui	Kaunakakai (Molokai)
	Charles M. Peters	R		Wailuku
	Harold W. Rice	R		Kula (Waiakoa)
3	David Y. K. Akana	R	Oahu	Honolulu
	Francis H. Ii Brown	R
	Joseph R. Farrington	R
	William H. Heen	D
	Francis K. Sylva	R
	David K. Trask	D		Kaneohe
4	John B. Fernandes	D	Kauaʻi	Kapaa
	Clement Gomes	R		Lihue

House of Representatives

↓
27	3
Republican	Democratic

Affiliation	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)			Total
	Republican	Ind	Democratic		Vacant
End of previous legislature (1939)	28	0	2	30	0
Begin (1941)	27	0	3	30	0
Latest voting share	90%		10%

District	Representative	Party	County	Address
1	Juichi Doi	R	Hawaiʻi	Hilo
	William J. Payne	R
	Thomas Pedro, Jr.	D
	Thomas T. Sakakihara	R
2	Arthur A. Akina	R		Kamuela
	Francis K. Aona	R		Kealakekua
	Ted T. Kuramoto	R		Kealakekua
	Robert L. Wilhelm	R		Naalehu
3	Alfred A. Afat [note 3]	R	Maui	Hoolehua (Molokai)
	William H. Engle	R		Spreckelsville
	Reuben Goodness	R		Wailuku
	David K. Kapohakimohewa	R		Kula (Waiakoa)
	Manuel G. Paschoal	R		Wailuku
	Henry P. Robinson, Jr.	R		Lahaina
4	Lindsley Austin	R	Oahu	Honolulu
	Walter Hyde Dillingham [note 4]	R
	Walter K. Macfarlane	R
	James M. O’Dowda	R
	Hebden Porteus	R
	J. Howard Worrall	R
5	Henry C. Akina	R		Honolulu
	Yew Char	D
	George M. Eguchi	R
	Hiram L. Fong	R
	George H. Holt, Jr.	D		Waianae
	Kam Tai Lee	R		Honolulu
6	Jacob K. Maka	R	Kauai	Hanalei
	A. Q. Marcallino	R		Eleele
	Wallace Otsuka	R		Kapaa
	Thomas Ouye	R		Lihue

References

1. "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Twenty-First Legislature – Regular Session 1941". LLMC Digital. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
2. "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Twenty-First Legislature – Regular Session 1941". LLMC Digital. p. 33. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
3. "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Twenty-First Legislature – Special Session 1941". LLMC Digital. p. 14. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
4. "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Twenty-First Legislature – Regular Session 1941". LLMC Digital. p. 242. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
5. "CPI Inflation Calculator". Official Data Foundation / Alioth LLC. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
6. "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the Twentieth Legislature – Regular Session 1939". LLMC Digital. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
7. "Walter Hyde Dillingham – The Watumull Foundation, Oral History Project". University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library. Retrieved November 28, 2022.

Notes

1. Coffee labelling was regulated by Act 289 (SLH 1991). It was criminalized as a felony by Act 328 (SLH 2012).
2. Cooke was a resident of the island of Molokai which is a constituent island of the County of Maui.
3. Afat was a resident of the island of Molokai which is a constituent island of the County of Maui.
4. Nephew of Walter F. Dillingham, and eldest grandchild of Benjamin Franklin Dillingham ^[7]