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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Joseph Rider Farrington |
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Honolulu, Hawai'i , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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October 15, 1897
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| Died | June 19, 1954
(56 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
Apr 25, 2008 06:11pm |
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| Info | FARRINGTON, Joseph Rider, (husband of Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington), a Delegate from the Territory of Hawaii
Born 10/15/1897 in Washington, D.C., while his parents were travelling there.
Attended Punahou Academy, Honolulu, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison; left college at the close of his junior year in June 1918 and enlisted in the United States Army; commissioned a second lieutenant of Field Artillery in September and was discharged in December 1918; returned to the University of Wisconsin and graduated in 1919; reporter on the staff of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia in 1919 and in Washington, D.C., 1920-1923; returned to Honolulu to become associated with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd., and was president and general manager from 1939 until his death; secretary to the Hawaii Legislative Commission in 1933
HI Territorial senate (R) 1934-1942. Early in his term, Farrington arranged to have a territory-wide referendum on statehood, which passed by a roughly 2:1 vote.
Delegate (R-HI Terr) 1943-1954; worked throughout his term for statehood for Hawaii.
Delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1952. Farrington kept the Hawaii delegation uncommitted in the Eisenhower-Taft struggle until Eisenhower agreed to support Hawaii statehood.
Three days before Farrington's death, President Eisenhower confirmed that statehood for Hawaii was imminent.
Died of a heart attack in his office in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 6/19/1954; interment in Nuuanu Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii.
[Link] ; NYT 6/20/1954 |
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