1. Cabinet ministers January 29, 1891 – January 17, 1893

2. See also

3. References

4. Bibliography

5. Further reading

Liliʻuokalani was the first queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. She ascended to the throne on January 29, 1891, nine days after the death of her brother Kalākaua, and inherited his cabinet ministers. The four cabinet positions were Attorney General, Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Interior. The ministers were ex-officio members of the House of Nobles in the legislature and the Privy Council of State, a larger body of advisors.

The Bayonet Constitution that Kalākaua had been forced to sign in 1887 allowed the monarch to appoint the cabinet, but transferred the power of their removal to the legislature alone. A legislative "resolution of want of confidence" would force the resignation of an entire cabinet. The new law allowed non-residents to vote, but economic and literacy restrictions disenfranchised a majority of Asians and native Hawaiians.{{sfn|MacLennan|2014|pp=47–48}} After her brother's funeral, the queen demanded the resignations of his ministers, causing a legal challenge when they refused. The case was decided in her favor by the Supreme Court of the kingdom.{{sfn|Kuykendall|1967|p=367}}

Shortly after her accession, Liliʻuokalani began to receive petitions through the political party Hui Kālaiʻāina and the National Reform Party, to re-write the constitution.{{sfn|Russ|1959|page=67}} The proposed constitution co-written by the queen and two legislators, Joseph Nāwahī and William Pūnohu White, would have restored the power to the monarchy, and voting rights to the disenfranchised population.{{sfn|Daws|1968|page=271}}{{sfn|Kuykendall|1967|pages=582–586}}

Attorney General Arthur P. Peterson, Minister of Finance William H. Cornwell, Minister of Foreign Affairs Samuel Parker and Minister of the Interior John F. Colburn were specifically appointed on January 13, 1893, because the queen believed they would support her promulgation of a new constitution, but they refused to sign the document.{{sfn|Kuykendall|1967|pp=580–583}} On January 17, 1893, the Kingdom of Hawaii fell to a coup d'état, planned and executed by the Committee of Safety, mostly foreign-born residents in Honolulu, whose goal was the annexation of Hawaii by the United States.^[1]

Cabinet ministers January 29, 1891 – January 17, 1893

See also

• Cabinet of the Kingdom of Hawaii
• Kalākaua's Cabinet Ministers
• 1892 Legislative Session of the Kingdom of Hawaii
• Liliʻuokalani's Privy Council of State
• MOS Hawaii-related articles

References

Bibliography

• {{cite book|last=Daws|first=Gavan|title=Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-010AAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|location=Honolulu|oclc=45815755|ref=harv}}
• {{cite book |last=Kuykendall |first=Ralph Simpson |authorlink=Ralph Simpson Kuykendall |title=The Hawaiian Kingdom 1874–1893, The Kalakaua Dynasty |url=http://www.ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?c=kingdom3&l=en |volume=3 |year=1967 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |location=Honolulu |isbn=978-0-87022-433-1 |oclc=500374815 |ref=harv}}
• {{cite book|last1=Lydecker|first1=Robert C.|title=Rosters of Legislatures of Hawaii 1841–1918|date=1918|publisher=The Honolulu Gazette Col., Ltd.|pages=301|url=https://archive.org/stream/rosterlegislatur00hawarich#page/n5/mode/2up|ref=harv}}
• {{cite book|last1=MacLennan|first1=Carol A.|title=Sovereign Sugar|date=2014|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|location=Honolulu|isbn=978-0-8248-3949-9|ref=harv|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/29077|subscription=yes||via=Project MUSE}}
• {{cite book|last=Russ|first=William Adam|title=The Hawaiian Revolution (1893–94)|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001261384|year=1959|publisher=Susquehanna University Press|location=Selinsgrove, PA|isbn=978-0-945636-53-3|oclc=24846595|ref=harv}}

Further reading

• {{cite book |title=All about Hawaii. The recognized book of authentic information on Hawaii, combined with Thrum's Hawaiian annual and standard guide |date=1891 |publisher=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |pages=92–97 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000598560 |format=(original from University of Michigan)|via=HathiTrust}}

"A List of All the Cabinet Ministers Who Have Held Office in the Hawaiian Kingdom"

• {{cite book |last1=Hewett |first1=A M |title=A Sketch of Recent Events, being a short account of the events which culminated on June 30, 1887, together with a full report of THE GREAT REFORM MEETING, and the two constitutions in parallel columns. |date=1887 |publisher=Hawaiian gazette print |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001873432|via=HathiTrust}}

37 pages relating to the Bayonet Constitution

• {{cite book|author=Liliuokalani|authorlink=Liliuokalani|title=Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, Liliuokalani|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001268108 |via=HathiTrust|location=Boston|publisher=Lee and Shepard|year=1898|isbn=978-0-548-22265-2|oclc=2387226}}
• {{cite book|last=Spaulding|first=Thomas Marshall|title=Cabinet Government in Hawaii, 1887–1893|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rfs2AAAAIAAJ|year=1924|publisher=University of Hawaii at Manoa|location=Honolulu|oclc=964596158}}

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