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Rose Compton Kahaipuleokalanikaahumanu Davison was born to American pharmacist Benoni Richmond Davison and British-Hawaiian chiefess Mary Jane Kekulani Fayerweather in Honolulu on September 22, 1868. Rose was educated at St. Andrew's Priory, Fort Street School, and Oahu College (the modern day Punahou School). She worked as a school teacher and became the principal of First English School in Manoa Valley in 1889. She later worked for the office of the Board of Education as Agent and Assistant Secretary of the Board.
In 1901-04-23, Davison was appointed by the Department of Public Instruction to head a delegation of Hawaiian educators who attended the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
In 1909, Davison received a police commission and appointment as humane officer by Sheriff Curtis P. Iaukea of the re-organized Humane Society.
In 1913, Davison died in Honolulu on May 26.

Born 1886-12-17, Honolulu; died 1959-03-24, Honolulu, age 72.
1925-03-16 Fleet Entertainment Commission 4 year term.
1929-05-11 Tax Board to 1933-04-30.
1947-05-29 Appointed to Statehood Commission to 1948-01-01; Reappointed: 1948-01-16 to 1952-01-01, to 1953-03-23.
1934-11 to 1942 Delegate to U.S. Congress
1953-02-28 to 1957-07-31 Governor
1951-12-18 to 1952-10-30 Hawaiian Homes Commission
1959-02-18 to 1959-03-24 House 8th District

1886 Born to Capt. James A. King and Charlotte Holmes Davis King in Honolulu. Educated at St. Louis College and Honolulu High School, which later became McKinley High School.
1905 Entered U.S. Naval Academy.
1910 Graduated and commissioned an Ensign in U.S. Navy.
1912 Married Pauline Evans, March 18.
1917 Department head aboard light cruiser USS St. Louis on escort duty between England and France.
1924 Commanding officer of USS Tanager and USS Whippoorwill scientific expeditions to islands of Hawaiian chain and to south of Hawaii.
Resigned from Navy as lieutenant commander, December 31.
1925 Established Halekou Co., Ltd., real estate sales.
1926 Established King and James Co., Ltd., real estate sales.
Established Samuel Wilder King, Ltd., real estate sales.
Established Kailua Coconut Grove 4th Series Land Trust.
Established Malolo Heights Land Trust.
1927 Established American-Hawaiian Development Co., Ltd.
1928 Established American-Hawaiian Mortgage Co., Ltd.
1932 Appointed to unexpired term in April and elected in November to the Honolulu Board of Supervisors.
1933 Appointed to Hawaii Home Rule Committee by Gov. Lawrence M. Judd.
1935-1942 Served as Hawaii's elected Delegate to U.S. Congress.
1935 Introduced statehood bill calling for House Committee on Territories to hold hearings in Hawaii.
1936 Chairman, Territorial Republican Party Central Committee.
1937 Introduced second statehood bill, June 10, and called for Joint Committee of Congress to hold hearings in Hawaii. Joint Committee met in Honolulu. King testified.
1938 Urged Territorial Legislature to hold statehood plebiscite in Hawaii.
1939 Introduced third statehood bill.
Formed Committee on Statehood Plebiscite, Honolulu, for vote at 1940 election, December.
1940 Delegate to Republican National Convention.
Plebiscite on statehood; affirmative vote, November.
1942 Resigned as Delegate. Sworn into U.S. Navy as Lieutenant Commander, November 28.
1943 Reentered Navy and assigned to Advance Base Section of Commander, Service Forces Pacific, based then in San Francisco, for duty in Pacific.
Reported for duty to staff of Commanding General, USMC, Samoan Defense Area, as Naval Liaison Officer, in charge of port development for bases to north of Funafuti in Samoan Defense Area.
1944 Ordered to Saipan as Port Director and Commander of Naval Base.
Promoted to captain.
1945 Received Legion of Merit for duties in Saipan.
Ordered to Wakanoura, Japan, before Japanese surrender, to establish naval base at port of debarkation for U.S. Sixth Army in invasion of Japan.
Detached from Wakanoura duty in November, returned to Hawaii.
1946 Retired from Navy as Captain, February.
Appointed Executive Secretary, Hawaii Territorial Governor's Joint Committee on Emergency Housing.
Appointed to Hawaii Statehood Commission by Governor.
1948 Chairman, Territorial Republican Party Central Committee.
Member, Pre-convention platform committee of National Republican Party Central Committee.
1949 Chairman, Hawaii Statehood Commission.
1950 Elected President, Constitutional Convention.
1951 Chairman, Hawaiian Homes Commission.
1952 Delegate to Republican National Convention.
1953 Appointed Territorial Governor by President Eisenhower.
1957 Resigned governorship upon learning five months previously that President Eisenhower would not reappoint him.
1958 Elected to Territorial House of Representatives from 8th Representative District (Koolaupoko).
Served as Trustee of Bishop Estate.
1959 Elected House Minority Leader.
Died at The Queen's Hospital, Honolulu, March 24 at age 72

On October 8, 1840, Kamehameha III granted the first constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom, which vested the judicial power of government in a Supreme Court, consisting of the King as chief judge, Premier (kuhina nui), and four individuals appointed by the representative body. Island courts held by their respective governors functioned as circuit courts on their respective island. The island governors were given powers to appoint judges who functioned as district magistrates for the island. Chapter XLVII of the Laws of 1842 mandated that the Supreme judges assemble in Honolulu each June and in Lahaina each December to try cases appealed to them. Selection criteria for foreign and native juries were provided for in the Laws of 1842. The Third Act of Kamehameha III in 1847 titled "An Act to Organize the Judiciary Department of the Hawaiian Islands" created four levels of courts - the Supreme Court, the Superior Court of Law and Equity, four circuit court jurisdictions, and district courts.