1. Antone Rosa was a politician, lawyer and judge of the Kingdom of Hawaii and Republic of Hawaii.
17 Facts About Antone Rosa
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Antone Rosa served as Attorney General of Hawaii, and as a private secretary and vice chamberlain to King Kalakaua.
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Antone Rosa was born at Kalae, on the island of Molokai, on November 10,1855.
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Antone Rosa's mother was a Native Hawaiian while his father Antone Rosa Sr.
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The senior Rosa immigrated to the Hawaiian Islands from Portugal in 1850.
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Antone Rosa clerked for Chief Justice Charles Coffin Harris, and served as Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court October 25,1877, to September 3,1882, but he was not allowed to practice as an attorney, because he had never studied law.
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Antone Rosa was serving as Deputy Attorney-General in 1885 when King Kalakaua appointed him Attorney-General on November 15 to fill a vacancy caused by the departure of John Lot Kaulukou.
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Antone Rosa's name was placed in nomination as an Independent candidate for representative from Honolulu in 1887.
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Antone Rosa denounced both the Honolulu Rifles and the Reform Party of Hawaii for their actions in obtaining that constitution, and for what he purported were later illegal exchanges of money after the document became the law of the Kingdom.
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Judge S L Austin of the Third and Fourth Circuit courts died suddenly in 1896, and Rosa was appointed as his replacement under the Republic of Hawaii.
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Antone Rosa eventually resigned the judgeship and returned to private practice.
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Antone Rosa died on September 9,1898, at his residence in Pawaa, Honolulu, after a lengthy illness.
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Antone Rosa was the widow of William Newton Ladd, by whom she had three daughters: Helen, Mabel and Emily.
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Antone Rosa notably received two hundred dollars as a minor devisee in the will of Bernice Pauahi Bishop.
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Helen and their three children William Ladd Rosa, Mahealani A Rosa and Rose Rosa survived him.
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Antone Rosa left an estate estimated at $8,000, most of it in land holdings, with Colburn named as the executor of his will.
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The court ordered that Antone Rosa's widow be paid $10 a week from the estate.