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J. O. (Joseph Oliver) CarterDescription
Joseph Oliver Carter (December 20, 1835 – February 27, 1909), known professionally as Joseph O. Carter, also known as J. O. Carter and Joe Carter, was a legal advisor to Queen Liliʻuokalani, serving on her Privy Council of State.
After returning to Hawaii in 1847, he finished school and began employment with A.B. Howe in Honolulu. He later worked as a clerk in the post office and became associated with H.M. Whitney, a dealer in books and a cotton grower in Hawaii. Carter then began working for the Pacific Commercial Advertiser until 1872 when he was elected to the Hawaiian Legislature.
Toward the end of his life, Carter was handling all Liliʻuokalani's financial affairs.[36] Carter was trustee and/or executor of the estates of several members of the Hawaiian nobility, including King Lunalilo.[37] Most notably, the trusteeship that occupied much of Carter's final years was the Bernice P. Bishop estate.[38] In addition to being one of the estate's trustees, he was one of the early directors of the Bishop Museum.[15] Native Hawaiian politician John Adams Cummins, son of High Chiefess Kaumakaokane Papaliʻaiʻaina, made Carter trustee of his estate.[39] He was one of the executors of the estate of James Campbell, husband of Abigail Kuaihelani Campbell who was a descendant of the Kalanikini line of Maui chieftains.[40][41] At the time of his death, Campbell was one of the largest landholders in the Territory of Hawaii and left an estate estimated at $3,000,000.[42][43]
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![For reference only: Carter's standing in the business community suffered from his association with the Queen.[27] According to Boston author Julius A. Palmer Jr., Carter's loyalty to her resulted in his being voted out of his position at C. Brewer & Co.[28] The Queen was put on trial and under house arrest for her alleged part in the 1895 Robert Wilcox rebellion attempt to restore her to the throne.[29] She was granted a full pardon in October 1896.[30] When she left Hawaii for the United States in December, seeing her off at Honolulu Harbor were Carter, on whose arm she leaned as she walked up the gangplank, Robert Wilcox, and her former Minister of Foreign Affairs Samuel Parker.[31]
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