Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole of Hawaiʻi (March 26, 1871 – January 7, 1922) was a prince of the reigning House of Kalākaua when the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi was overthrown by American residents in 1893. He later went on to become a politician and served in the United States Congress.
Kalanianaʻole was born in Kōloa on the island of Kauaʻi as an aliʻi or Hawaiian nobleman. Like all aliʻi his genealogy was complex, but centered mainly on his ancestry as an heir of Kaumualiʻi, the ruling chief of Kauaʻi. Like many members of the Hawaiian nobility in the nineteenth-century he was well educated,
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