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| 1871 births | |
| baldwin, henry alexander | |
| 1946 deaths | |
| hawaiian businesspeople | |
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| delegates to the united states house of representatives from hawaii territory | |
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EDUCATION Born in the Maui township of Paliuli in the Kingdom Of Hawaiʻi , Baldwin was educated in Honolulu at Punahou School . His parents sent him to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from which he graduated in 1889 . In 1894 , Baldwin obtained a degree at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology and returned to Honolulu to become a Sugarcane Plantation owner. Sugarcane production propped by increasing trade with the United States made Baldwin a wealthy man. POLITICS Baldwin entered local politics in 1931 when he began his service in the Hawaiʻi Territorial Senate . He was Senator until 1921 when he was called to higher office to fulfill the unexpired term of Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole in Washington, DC . Kalanianaʻole had died and Baldwin was elected to fill the vacancy for Congressional Delegate from March 25 , 1922 to March 3 , 1923 . Despite pleas to continue service, he retired from politics and returned to his private business ventures. Baldwin emerged from retirement to serve in the Hawaiʻi Territorial House Of Representatives in 1933 . Following a single term, Baldwin returned to the upper chamber where he became senate president in 1937 . |
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