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Stamps of Hawaii - Hawaii's Royalty on Stamps
King Kamehameha IV (Alexander)
King Kamehameha IV (#31) |
In 1854 Alexander Liholiho became Kamehameha IV and tried to curtail the influence of the missionaries. Though he stopped a US plan for annexation, he was powerles against the epidemics that were wiping out native Hawaiian islanders. It was because so many islanders were dying of measles, the common cold, the flu and other such common European ailments, that planters, many of them former missionaries, began importing workers from China, Japan and other Asian lands. In 1862 Alexander's only child Albert died and in the next year so did Alexander. Queen Emma, who was half-Hawaiian and half-English, then was given the name "Kaleleonalani," meaning the "flight of the heavenly chiefs."
Alexander's reign as Kamehameha IV is often referred to as the "golden age," and though he was fun-loving and a lenient ruler, there are persistent rumors that both Kahehameha IV and his son Albert were poisoned.
