Samuel Wilder King
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Samuel Wilder King (December 17, 1886Template:Ndash March 24, 1959) was the eleventh Territorial Governor of Hawai'i and served from 1953 to 1957. He was appointed to the office after the term of Oren E. Long. Previously, King served in the U.S. House of Representatives as a delegate from the Territory of Hawai'i. He was a member of the Hawai'i Republican Party and was the first of native Hawaiian descent to rise to the highest office in the territory.
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Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii Territory