Curtis P. Iaukea

Curtis Piʻehu Iʻaukea
Governor of Oahu
In office October 4, 1886 – August 5, 1887
Monarch	Kalākaua
Secretary of Hawaii
In office May 3, 1917 – October 12, 1921
Acting Governor of Hawaii
In office December 30, 1919 – March 30, 1920
Governor	Charles J. McCarthy
Member of the Territory of Hawaii Senate for the Third District
In office 1913–1915
Personal details
Born	(1855-12-13)December 13, 1855 Waimea, Hawaii, Kingdom of Hawaii
Died	March 5, 1940(1940-03-05) (aged 84) Honolulu, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii
Resting place	Oahu Cemetery
Nationality	Kingdom of Hawaii Republic of Hawaii United States
Political party	National Democrat
Spouse	Charlotte Kahaloipua Hanks
Children	Lorna Kahilipuaokalani Iaukea Watson Frederick Hanks Nalaniahi Iaukea
Alma mater	St. Alban's College
Occupation	Diplomat, Envoy, Politicians
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Kingdom of Hawaii Republic of Hawaii
Years of service	1878–1893 1895–1898
Rank	Colonel, Adjutant General, Captain, Major and Quartermaster
Unit	Prince’s Own King's Staff Queen's Staff General Staff of the Republic

Colonel Curtis Piʻehu Iʻaukea (December 13, 1855 – March 5, 1940) served as a court official, army officer and diplomat of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. He later became an influential official for the subsequent regimes of the Provisional Government and the Republic and Territory of Hawaii.

Iaukea was raised from an early age to serve the Hawaiian royal family. He first gained prominence during the reign of King Kalākaua where he served as an important court official and an army officer of the volunteer army of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He held numerous important positions including Governor of Oahu and Chamberlain to the Royal Household. He also served as Hawaii's ambassador to Europe and Asia, attending the coronation of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. He received numerous Hawaiian honors and foreign decorations during his service to the kingdom. Following the overthrow of the monarchy, he continued to work for the subsequent regimes of the Provisional Government and the Republic of Hawaii. He served as an officer on the military staff of President Sanford B. Dole and represented the Republic at the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

After Hawaii's annexation to the United States, he became a member of the Democratic Party of Hawaii and served many official positions in the newly created Territory of Hawaii including Senator of the Third District, Secretary of Hawaii and Acting Governor of Hawaii. As one of the last surviving members of the Hawaiian royal court, he served as the business manager and private secretary of the deposed Queen Liliʻuokalani until her death in 1917.

Early life and family

Curtis Piʻehu Iʻaukea was born December 13, 1855, in Waimea, on the island of Hawaii. Descended from the Hawaiian aliʻi(Noble) class, his parents were John W. Iaukea and Lahapa. His father served as the district magistrate of Hamakua and their family were well known on the island of Hawaii. From his paternal line, he descended from Namiki, a priest of the Pa‘ao order, and Kahiwa Kānekapōlei, a daughter of Kānekapōlei, the wife of Kalaniʻōpuʻu and Kamehameha I. While on his mother's side, he descended from Kalanipo or Nalanipo, a descendant of the ʻI clan of Hilo and the Mahi clan of Kohala. His mother's family were related to Kekuiapoiwa II, the mother of King Kamehameha I. His family were considered to be of the Hawaiian kaukau aliʻi rank, or lower ranking chiefs in service to the royal family.

He and his sister Maraea were born in the family's home in Waimea, which stood across the Waikōloa Stream from the residence of early American Protestant missionary Lorenzo Lyons who was a close friend of the family. Iaukea was given the first name Curtis after Rev. Lyons' son Curtis Jere Lyons. When he was later presented to King Kamehameha IV as a young child, the king gave him the additional name Piʻehu after his shyness and lighter skin complexion. At court, he was known and referred to by his Hawaiian name Piʻehu.

Shortly after birth, he was taken from his cradle and adopted by his maternal uncle Kaihupaʻa to be raised as in the Hawaiian custom of hānai, an informal form of adoption between extended families practiced by Hawaiian royals and commoners alike. His uncle had been educated by the American Protestant missionary Levi Chamberlain and had served his entire life as a personal assistant and servant to King Kamehameha III and later his successor Kamehameha IV. Iaukea was taken to the kingdom's capital at Honolulu to live with Kaihupaʻa and his wife Keliaipala. They lived near the grounds of the old ʻIolani Palace, in the building of the former Royal School. Renamed Halepoepoe (meaning circular or round house), this building had been turned into a home for royal retainers and the kahu (caretakers) for the reigning King Kamehameha IV. Around the time he was five or six, Iaukea fell into a well and his uncle Kaihupaʻa broke his foot in the process saving him and later died from the injuries he sustained.

Childhood and education

Iaukea was raised at the Hawaiian court to become a kahu and continue his family kuleana (responsibility) of serving the Hawaiian royal family. The young boy was intended to be raised as a page or valet, and companion, for Prince Albert Edward Kamehameha, the only son, and heir of Kamehameha IV and his wife Queen Emma. However, these plans were never realized because the prince died in 1862, at the age of four. In later life, he noted,

"Of the more vivid and enduring of my boyhood impressions, I recall the days when, as a bare footed urchin of five and six, I used to romp around the Palace Grounds, dancing attendance on royalty in the role of page and valet to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Hawaii — Ka Haku-o-Hawaii, as he was more familiarly known amongst royalty and Hawaiians, then, well on in his fourth year and in the full enjoyment of health and happy childhood."

St. Alban's College, Honolulu, 1866

As a ward of the Hawaiian government, he was sent to an Anglican boarding school. In 1862, Iaukea was sent to the St. Alban's College, located in the Pauoa Valley, founded by Bishop Thomas Nettleship Staley and his assistants Archdeacon George Mason and Rev. Edmund Ibbotson. Here he first developed a friendship with William Pitt Leleiohoku, the hānai son of Princess Keʻelikōlani. Their bond was later compared to the friendship of Damon and Pythias. In 1863, the school was relocated and merged with the Luaʻehu School, in Lahaina, Maui, established by the Anglican Rev. William R. Scott and later administered by Archdeacon Mason who served as Iaukea's mentor. In 1870, he returned to Oahu when the school was again relocated back to the original site of the St. Alban's College. These institutions were the precursors of the present ʻIolani School in Honolulu. Some of his classmates besides Leleiohoku included Samuel Nowlein and Robert Hoapili Baker, both of whom were politicians in later life.

Service to the monarchy

In 1871, before leaving Hawaii, Archdeacon Mason informed Iaukea that had Kamehameha IV been still living, he would have intended for him to continue his education in Europe and to groom him to one day become an ordained chaplain for the royal family. Iaukea was deeply touched by the high expectations of his deceased benefactor. After finishing his education, Iaukea served King Kamehameha V as a kāhili bearer and steward in the palace, awaiting an assignment from the king. In 1872, the king sent him and William K. Hutchison, the son of Ferdinand William Hutchison, to Lahaina where they would learn the art of sugar boiling in the growing sugar industry on Maui and help manage the West Maui Sugar Plantation, which the king had a share in. They were placed under the care of Governor Paul Nahaolelua. After the king's death in 1872, Iaukea briefly left his service to the royal court and moved to Hilo and live with his sister Maraea and her husband Charles Akono Nui Akau, a Chinese-Hawaiian manager of the Paukaʻa Sugar Plantation. The listless Iaukea enjoyed his new found independence but he also felt unfulfilled. He later wrote: "I was dangling at a loose end. And even though I was enjoying my independence, I was aware that I did not know just where I was going or what I ought to do. I was frustrated without realizing it."

Reign of Kalākaua

Colonel Iaukea as a young officer, 1878

Following the short reign of Lunalilo, King Kalākaua ascended to the throne of Hawaii in 1874. During a tour of the island of Hawaii, Iaukea caught the eye of the new king who commanded him to return to the royal court. He became a personal aide of the king's younger brother and his former schoolmate Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku. Both men were of similar age and shared the same interest in sports and music. He became a member of the Kawaihau Glee Club, a group sponsored by the Prince and his friends, which competed with the singing clubs of the king, Princess Liliʻuokalani and Princess Likelike. Liliʻuokalani noted her brother's group "consisted in a large degree of the very purest and sweetest male voices to be found amongst the native Hawaiians." In later life, Iaukea recalled, "Happy days those were; the days when 'Wine, Women and Song' were the rule of the day." The Prince died on April 7, 1877.

On April 15, 1878, Iaukea was commissioned as Captain of the Prince's Own Artillery Corps, Company A. This unit was a voluntary military regiment reorganized in 1874 and originally headed by King Kalākaua. The army of the Kingdom of Hawaii, at this time, consisted of five volunteer companies, including the Prince's Own, and the regular troops of the King's Household Guard. Each unit was subject to call for active service when necessary. He was also appointed on November 29, 1878, to King Kalākaua's personal military staff, with the rank of Colonel. The reign of Kalakaua was characterized by the monarch's emphasis on military pomp. On October 4, 1886, Colonel Iaukea was created Adjutant General to the Forces of the Kingdom, succeeding upon the resignation of Charles T. Gulick. According to the military act of 1886, as Adjutant General, he was the second in command after John Owen Dominis, who was appointed Lieutenant General and Commander-in-Chief with the king as Supreme Commander and Generalissimo.

During the reign of the king, he held, at different time, the important posts of Tax Collector for Koolaupoko, member of the Privy Council of State, Commissioner to the Great International Fisheries Exhibition in London, member of the Board of Health, Disbursing Agent for the Royal Guard, Collector General of Customs, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Land Agent, the King's Private Secretary and others minor positions and appointments. He served as the Chamberlain to the Royal Household from 1886 to 1888, succeeding to this post upon the resignation of Charles Hastings Judd. After Dominis's appointment as Lieutenant General, Iaukea was appointed as his successor as the Governor of Oahu. He served as Governor from October 4, 1886 to August 5, 1887 until Dominis was reappointed to this post.

From 1880 to 1884 he worked as the Secretary of the Foreign Office. As the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Iaukea was the most travelled member of the Hawaiian administration after Kalākaua. He served as the kingdom's ambassador under the title of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, representing Hawaii at the coronation of Tsar Alexander III of Russia on May 27, 1883, and a subsequent diplomatic tour of the courts of Europe and Japan. Traveling with his secretary, the part-Hawaiian Henry F. Poor, Iaukea made a favorable impression on the courts of Europe. In Russia, they had an audience with the new tsar and tsarina, met Russian Foreign Minister Nikolay Girs and socialized on an equal footing with the other foreign dignitaries. Iaukea later noted, "the sight of my country's flag floating over the entrance to the Hotel Duseaux besides those of the United States and Japan, gave me an added incentive to meet the responsibilities that lay ahead and discharge them with honor." The two Hawaiians traveled to courts of Berlin, Vienna, Belgrade, London, Rome, and India and Japan via the Suez Canal. In London, he visited the International Fisheries Exhibition. In Japan, he met with the Emperor Meiji and helped finalize an immigration plan between Japan and Hawaii previously negotiated by the Kalākaua during his 1881 world tour.

In 1887, he was appointed ambassador to Great Britain, with the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St James's, and accompanied Queen Kapiʻolani and Princess Liliʻuokalani to the celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. The diplomatic party also included Governor John Owen Dominis, husband of the princess, Colonel James Harbottle Boyd, secretary and attaché to Iaukea, and their attendants. On the journey across the United States, they visited Washington, DC and met with the President of the United States Grover Cleveland. The Hawaiian party was graciously received during the Jubilee and given the same honor as every nation in attendance. Iaukea helped translated for Queen Kapiʻolani, who only spoke Hawaiian, during her official audience with Queen Victoria.

Iaukea was decorated with the Royal Order of Kapiolani and the Royal Order of the Crown of Hawaii in 1884, and biographies of him claimed he also received all the Hawaiian orders during the reign of Kalākaua, i.e. the honors of the Royal Order of Kamehameha I, the Royal Order of Kalākaua, the Royal Order of the Star of Oceania. He also received many foreign honors and decorations including Commander (Third Class) Order of the Crown of Thailand, Commander of an unspecified order from the Ottoman Empire, Grand Cross and Cordon of Order of Saint Stanislaus of Russia, the Grand Cross and Ribbon of the Order of the Cross of Takovo of Serbia, the Legion of Honour of France, Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Olav of Sweden-Norway, Knight Commander of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan, the Belgian Red Cross, Grand Officer of the Order of the Liberator of Venezuela, the British Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee and Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Following the overthrow

After the death of Kalākaua and the accession of Queen Liliʻuokalani, he was re-appointed as Colonel on the queen's personal military staff and as agent of the Crown Lands. The monarchy was overthrown on January 17, 1893, by the Committee of Safety, with the support of United States Minister John L. Stevens and the landing of American forces from the USS Boston. After a brief transition under the Provisional Government, the oligarchical Republic of Hawaii was established on July 4, 1894, with Sanford B. Dole as president.

Following the overthrow, Iaukea was asked by the Provisional Government to remain in his post as agent of the Crown Land. He took the oath of allegiance to the new regime on January 24, 1893. According to Iaukea, in later life, he decided to continue on working for the two subsequent regimes after consulting with the deposed queen and gaining her approval. He also cited the economic necessity of working for the government since he and his wife had to sell their Honolulu house around this time. From this point his friendship with Liliʻuokalani cooled with Iaukea noting that "my calls on [her] lacked the personal informality of happier days."

During this period, he worked as the sub-agent of the Public Lands. He also served on the Board of Prison Inspectors in 1893, was appointed Special Police Constable of the Kona Distirct of Oahu in 1894. On November 27, 1895, he was commissioned with the demoted rank of Major and Quartermaster on the General Staff of the Republic. Having developed a close friendship with the British Crown, Iaukea returned to the United Kingdom to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. Representing the Republic, Iaukea served at the demoted rank of secretary and military attaché to Special Envoy Samuel Mills Damon. In January 1898, he accompanied President Dole and his wife to Washington, DC, also in the role of secretary and military attaché.

After annexation

Iaukea with Sanford B. Dole, Henry E. Cooper and Lorrin A. Thurston, 1923

When the United States annexed Hawaii and established the Territory of Hawaii, Iaukea became involved in local politics as a member of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. In the general election of 1904, he unsuccessfully challenged Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, a Republican, for the position of congressional delegate from Hawaii under the Democratic ticket. In the 1906 election, he was elected as the second Sheriff of the County of Honolulu, succeeding Arthur M. Brown. He served in this position from 1907 to 1909. He was a trustee of the Queen's Medical Center from 1905 to 1909.

He served as a Democratic member of the Territorial Senate from 1913 to 1915, representing the Third District of Oahu. Under the Democratic Governor Charles J. McCarthy, Iaukea was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson as the Secretary of Hawaii from May 3, 1917 to October 12, 1921, and Acting Governor of the Territory from December 30, 1919 to March 30, 1920.

After the death of Joseph Oliver Carter, Iaukea became the private secretary and business agent of Liliʻuokalani. From 1909 to 1917, he served in this role and became a trustee of The Queen Liliʻuokalani Trust, a charitable trust established by the queen to manage her landholdings and estate after her death. Iaukea and his wife Charlotte were at Liliuokalani's side when she died in 1917. He was the one who raised her royal standard (flag) over Washington Place to signal her death, and was in charge of planning Liliuokalani's funeral. He served as an honorary pallbearer during the funeral procession while his son Frederick Hank Iaukea served as an active pallbearer carrying the catafalque bearing the casket of the queen to her final resting place at the for entombment with her family members in the Kalākaua Crypt of the Royal Mausoleum of Mauna ʻAla. As a former chamberlain and one of the last surviving representatives of the former dynasty, he had planned the royal funerals of Princess Kaʻiulani in 1899 and Prince David Kawānanakoa in 1908 and Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole in 1922. He was chairman of the Hawaiian Homes Commission from 1933 to 1935, member of the Archives Commissioner from 1937 and custodian of the throne room of Iolani Palace from 1937.

Iaukea died in Honolulu, on March 5, 1940, at the age of 84. He was buried at the Oahu Cemetery. As the last surviving court member of the defunct monarchy, Iaukea was regarded as an important authority on the past during his lifetime but also as a positive example of those who adapted to the changing politics of the islands. His great-great-granddaughter Sydney Lehua Iaukea noted:

Curtis P. Iaukea not only embodied these changes but was directly implicated in this process as a permanent figure in the government of both the Hawaiian Kingdom and the Territory of Hawai‘i. Toward the end of his life, he was celebrated as one Hawaiian who made the leap to American citizenry successfully ...
Curtis P. Iaukea was celebrated as a Hawaiian who survived the monarchy and lived to tell about it. He was also regarded as representing all that was apparently good about becoming American, even though until the end of his life the photos of my great-great-grandfather show him proudly wearing the uniforms and medals that accompanied his trips to faraway places as a diplomat for the Hawaiian Kingdom. He was never pictured wearing his uniforms, after the fact, for the Republic of Hawai‘i as its official diplomat. Even so, the territorial government regularly drew on his memories to close the gap between the Hawaiian Kingdom and the territory and in order to legitimize its own existence in the process. It needed to insert its inevitability into the historical narrative, and used my great-great-grandfather’s public memories to represent its "evidence of inheritance."

Personal life

Charlotte Kahaloipua Hank Iaukea

Iaukea married Charlotte Kahaloipua Hanks (1856–1936) on April 7, 1877. They had met through the acquaintanceship of Charlotte's aunt Uwini Auld and Queen Emma. The only daughter of American businessman Frederick Leslie Hanks and Chinese-Hawaiian Akini, Charlotte was of mixed-Caucasian, Native Hawaiian and Chinese descent. Her father was allegedly a relative of Nancy Hanks, the mother of President Abraham Lincoln, and had settled in Hawaii after his second visit in 1853. A descendant of the Kahaloipua line of chiefs, her genealogy was considered to be of a higher rank than her husband. Her maternal grandfather was the early Chinese businessman Tyhune (i.e. Wong Tai-hoon), who owned the Tyhune Store in downtown Honolulu during from the 1830s to the 1850s and invested in sugar, shipping, merchandise, and liquor sale. She inherited lands in Waikiki and Honolulu from her maternal grandmother Wahinekapu, a Hawaiian chiefess and the daughter or sister of Kahanaumaikai, who had been a recipient in the Great Mahele. Charlotte served as a lady-in-waiting for Queen Kapiʻolani and was a close friend of Liliʻuokalani. During the monarchy, she received the honor of Knight Companion of the Royal Order of Kapiolani.

The couple had two children: a daughter named Lorna Kahilipuaokalani Iaukea (1885–1973), who married Edward B. Watson, and a son named Frederick Hanks Nalaniahi Iaukea (1881–1944). Before his death, Iaukea had hired writer and researcher Jeanne Hobbs to write his memoirs entrusting her with much of his personal papers. However, he later sued her for not finishing the memoir and demanded she return of these papers, but died before getting them back. Reclaiming these documents from Hobbs after her death in 1953, his daughter Lorna wrote and published the book By Royal Command: The Official Life and Personal Reminiscences of Colonel Curtis Piehu Iaukea at the Court of Hawaii's Rulers using the personal writings of her father. In 2012, his great-great-granddaughter Sydney Lehua Iaukea wrote The Queen and I: A Story of Dispossessions and Reconnections in Hawaiʻi, a book about Iaukea and the role he played in the estate of Queen Liliuokalani. Other notable descendants of Iaukea and Charlotte include writer Lesley Kehaunani Iaukea and professional wrestlers King Curtis Iaukea and Rocky Iaukea.

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Further reading

• Dukas, Neil Bernard (2004). A Military History of Sovereign Hawaiʻi. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-56647-636-2. OCLC 56195693.
• Iaukea, Curtis P. (1935). "Japanese in Hawaii". The Mid-Pacific Magazine. 48. T. H., A. H. Ford; Pan-Pacific Union, Pan-Pacific Research Institution: 87–88. OCLC 145158315.
• Schweizer, Niklaus Rudolf (2004). His Hawaiian Excellency: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy and the Annexation of Hawai'i (3rd ed.). New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-6871-6. OCLC 55682174.

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