16 Facts About Ingram Stainback

Ingram Macklin Stainback was an American politician.

Ingram Stainback served as the ninth Territorial Governor of Hawaii from 1942 to 1951.

Ingram Stainback's father, Charles A Stainback Sr, was a lawyer and his brother, Charles A Stainback, was a Democratic member of the Tennessee Senate.

Ingram Stainback resigned in 1917 to join the Army and rose to the rank of major.

Previous to his administration, Ingram Stainback was a United States District Attorney and then a judge on the US District Court for the Territory of Hawaii.

Ingram Stainback was appointed to the office by President Franklin D Roosevelt.

However, Ingram Stainback was essentially powerless for the first two years of his term since Gov.

Ingram Stainback believed Communists were plotting to take over the Hawaiian Islands.

Ingram Stainback provided a genesis for Hawaii's Democratic Revolution of 1954 by decrying the land monopolies in Hawaii and calling for land reform.

Ingram Stainback had supported statehood until as late as 1946 but vocally opposed it from 1947.

Ingram Stainback supported Hawaii's admission based on the fact that, as Hawaii took on "all the burdens of a State", it should be afforded the privileges of statehood such as voting members of Congress.

In March 1946, Ingram Stainback still seemed supportive of statehood at further congressional hearings in Washington, but Roger Bell suggests that this was in order to not seem out of step with Hawaiians at a time when his reappointment as governor was pending.

Ingram Stainback claimed he changed his mind on statehood upon being briefed by the US Army about Communist activity on the islands.

Ingram Stainback argued for Commonwealth status similar to Puerto Rico instead of statehood, suggesting that Hawaii would benefit from the federal tax exemption which would stimulate economic growth.

Ingram Stainback is memorialized on the island of Hawaii by the Ingram Stainback Highway, a little-used 18-mile road that leads from the Hawaii Belt Road near Hilo at to Kulani Correctional Facility, a minimum security state prison at.

Ingram Stainback's son, Macklin Fleming, was an associate justice of the California Court of Appeal and an early opponent of affirmative action.