The Honolulu Star-Bulletin was a daily newspaper based in Honolulu,Hawaii,United States. At the time publication ceased on June 6,2010,it was the second largest daily newspaper in the state of Hawaiʻi. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin,along with a sister publication called MidWeek,was owned by Black Press of Victoria,British Columbia,Canada and administered by a council of local Hawaii investors. The daily merged with the Advertiser on June 7,2010,to form the Honolulu Star-Advertiser,after Black Press's attempts to find a buyer fell through.
Wallace Rider Farrington was an American journalist who served as the sixth Territorial Governor of Hawaii,serving from 1921 to 1929. Prior to his term,he was editor of The Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspapers.
Joseph Rider Farrington was an American newspaper editor and statesman who served in the United States Congress as delegate for the Territory of Hawai'i.
The Hawaii Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party (GOP) in Hawaii,headquartered in Honolulu. The party was initially strong during Hawaii's territorial days,but following statehood the Democratic Party has become the dominant party in Hawaii. The party currently has very weak electoral power in the state and is one of the weakest affiliates of the national Republican Party;it currently controls none of Hawaii's statewide or federal elected offices.
Theresa Owana Kaʻōhelelani Laʻanui was a descendant of Kalokuokamaile,the eldest brother of Kamehameha I. She was a member of the House of Laʻanui,a collateral branch of the House of Kamehameha.
Herbert Young Cho Choy was the first Asian American to serve as a United States federal judge and the first person of Korean ancestry to be admitted to the bar in the United States. He served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Clement Furman Haynsworth Jr. was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was also an unsuccessful nominee for the United States Supreme Court in 1969.
Peter Aquino Aduja was the first Filipino American elected to public office in the United States. He was elected as a representative in the Hawaii Legislature in 1954.
Walter Augustus Huxman was an American attorney,politician,and jurist who served as the 27th governor of Kansas and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
President Richard Nixon entered office in 1969 with Chief Justice Earl Warren having announced his retirement from the Supreme Court of the United States the previous year. Nixon appointed Warren E. Burger to replace Earl Warren,and during his time in office appointed three other members of the Supreme Court:Associate Justices Harry Blackmun,Lewis F. Powell,and William Rehnquist. Nixon also nominated Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell for the vacancy that was ultimately filled by Blackmun,but the nominations were rejected by the United States Senate. Nixon's failed Supreme Court nominations were the first since Herbert Hoover's nomination of John J. Parker was rejected by the Senate.
David Alan Ezra is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. Since January 2013,Ezra has been designated by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court to serve on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas,San Antonio Division to help ease the heavy workload for the federal judges in Texas.
Shiro Kashiwa was an American lawyer and judge who was the first Attorney General of Hawaii to be appointed after it became a state in 1959. He served as a judge of the United States Court of Claims,then as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington,D.C. from 1982 to 1986. He was the first federal judge of Japanese-American descent,the first Asian American judge on the Federal Circuit and was a member of the Jōdo Shinshūsect of Buddhism.
Sabrina Shizue McKenna is an American judge from the U.S. state of Hawaii. Since March 3,2011,she has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.
Richard W. Pollack is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. He was nominated by Governor Neil Abercrombie in 2012 to replace outgoing Justice James E. Duffy,Jr. His nomination was approved in the Hawaii State Senate by a vote of 24–1,and he was appointed on August 6,2012. He retired on July 2,2020,when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.
James Leslie Coke was a justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii from January 13,1917,to April 17,1922,serving as chief justice from March 7,1918,to April 17,1922,and again from 1935 to 1941.
Wilfred Chomatsu "Tsuky" Tsukiyama 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 the first to serve as a state Supreme Court Justice in the United States.
William Seabrook Edings was a justice of the Territorial Supreme Court of Hawaii from September 26,1918 to October 10,1922.
Joseph Francis McLaughlin was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii in the Territory of Hawaii.
Thelma Alice Kalaokona Moore Akana Harrison was an American public health nurse and politician who served as a Republican Senator for Oahu in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature. She was the first woman to be reelected to the Territorial Senate.
