Name/Title
George C Beckley signed Postal CardDescription
Postal card dated March 20, 1894 to the Port Master at Makawao.
"The S.S. Kinau will leave Maalaea on Tuesday 6, P.M. March 27th 1894, for Honolulu.
Wilder's S.S. Co., Per Geo C Beckley.
George Charles Mo'oheau Kauluheimalama Beckley (May 5, 1849 – July 4, 1910) was a member of Liliʻuokalani's Privy Council of State from 1891 to 1892, and a director of the Wilder Steamship Company. Born of Hawaiian and British ancestry, his native Hawaiian forebears were reputed to have helped hide the bones of Kamehameha I. Like his British grandfather who was an advisor to Kamehameha I, he chose a life sailing the seas. In his youth, he joined whaling expeditions and survived a hijacking spree by pirates who captured 29 ships. Beckley was one of 50 Hawaiian crew members who were rescued from multiple vessels and sent safely back to Hawaii. He found his life's career with Hawaii's inter-island steamships, where he partnered with Samuel G. Wilder. Beckley was awarded the Royal Order of the Star of Oceania and the Order of the Crown of Hawaii by King Kalākaua.
Beckley became an independent against the newly empowered Reform Party. In the special election of 1887, he and his fellow native Hawaiian Joseph Nāwahī ran[34] under the opposition ticket against Reform Party members Henry Deacon and D. Kamai but lost due to the disenfranchisement of much of the native constituencies. Deacon and Kamai would represent Hilo in the special legislative session of 1887 and the regular session of 1888.[note 3]
Kalākaua awarded Beckley the Royal Order of the Star of Oceania and the Order of the Crown of Hawaii.[16][36] He was appointed to the Privy Council of State of Queen Liliʻuokalani on August 31, 1891,[37] and sworn in by Chief Justice Albert Francis Judd on July 8, 1892. The minutes of the Privy Council only record his attendance to one meeting, the one in which he was sworn into the body.
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