He united the separate small Hawaiian kingdoms into one large kingdom in 1795.
Among those wounded that day was the young man who would soon unite the Hawaiian kingdom for the first time in its long history.
Cleveland decided that this had been an act of war against the Hawaiian Kingdom.
In 1853 he was elected as representative to the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Opposition to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom took several forms.
He followed his father and became a member of the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1886.
Nonetheless, loyalty to the Hawaiian Kingdom, especially amongst the older generation, continued.
This ended any legal or military chance of restoring the Queen and the Hawaiian Kingdom.
None of the former citizens of the Hawaiian kingdom held any cognizable interest in these lands" (3).
In 1880 he was elected to the house of representatives of the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom.