Richard H. Stanley

For other people named Richard Stanley, see Richard Stanley (disambiguation).

Richard Henry Stanley (September 10, 1825 – November 5, 1875) was an American lawyer who served as politician and cabinet member of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Life

Stanley was born in New York City, September 10, 1825, son of Joseph Currey Stanley and Ellen (Cortelyou) Stanley. He arrived in Hawaii on the ship "Yankee" on 20 April 1858.[1] On February 4, 1861, he became a citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii.[2] In 1869, he was hired with R. G. Davis by Henry E. Pierce to argue that he was legally the son of American diplomat Henry A. Peirce.[3] He was involved in several land claims, and became commissioner of crown lands in 1874. In the 1874 sessions he was in the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the House of Nobles.[4] This was a special session to elect a new king after the death of Lunalilo after a reign of only one year. Stanley acted of secretary of this meeting in February 1874.[5]

He was appointed Attorney General on May 28, 1874, by King Kalākaua, and replaced Alfred S. Hartwell.[6]

He died November 5, 1875.[7] John S. Walker who was minister of finance, acted as attorney general until William Richards Castle was appointed on February 15, 1876.[8] One of his law partners, Edward Preston (1831–1890), would also later become attorney general.[9]

References

1. The Currey Family in the Hudson Highlands (1970), p. 35.
2. "Naturalization record". state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
3. Alfred S. Hartwell (1869). "In the matter of the legitimacy of Henry E. Pierce: a native of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands".
4. "Stanley, Richard H. office record". state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
5. Jean Dabagh (1974). "King is Elected: One Hundred Years Ago". Hawaiian Journal of History. Vol. 8. Hawaii Historical Society. hdl:10524/112.
6. "Attorney General office record" (PDF). state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 30, 2010. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
7. Wade Warren Thayer; Robert Colfax Lydecker (1916). A digest of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Hawaii: volumes 1 to 22 inclusive, January 6, 1847, to October 7, 1915. Paradise of the Pacific Press. p. xv.
8. Ralph Simpson Kuykendall (1967). Hawaiian Kingdom 1874-1893, the Kalakaua Dynasty. Vol. 3. University of Hawaii Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-87022-433-1.
9. "Mr Justice Preston: Passes Quietly Away to his Long Rest at His Residence, King Street". The Hawaiian Gazette. Honolulu. January 21, 1890. Retrieved July 9, 2010.

External links

• All about Hawaii. The recognized book of authentic information on Hawaii, combined with Thrum's Hawaiian annual and standard guide ((original from University of Michigan)). Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 1891. pp. 92–97 – via HathiTrust.

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

• Woods, Roberta. "LibGuides: Hawai'i Legal Research: Attorney General Opinions". law-hawaii.libguides.com.

Includes a list of Attorneys General for the Kingdom of Hawaii, their salaries and budgets

Government offices
Preceded by Alfred S. Hartwell	Kingdom of Hawaii Attorney General May 1874 – November 1875	Succeeded by John S. Walker