:Hannibal Tavares
{{short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Hannibal Tavares
| image= Hannibal Tavares.jpg
| order=
| office = 2nd Mayor of Maui
| term_start = October 1979
| term_end = January 2, 1991
| predecessor = Elmer F. Cravalho
| successor = Linda Lingle
| birth_date= {{birth date|1919|9|24}}
| birth_place= Makawao, Territory of Hawaii, U.S.
| death_date= {{death date and age|1998|1|17|1919|9|24}}
| death_place= Wailuku, Hawaii, U.S.
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| profession=
| residence=
| spouse= Harriet Tavares
| children =
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Hannibal M. Tavares (September 24, 1919 – January 17, 1998) was an American politician who served as the 2nd Mayor of Maui from October 1979 until January 2, 1991.{{cite news |first=Brian |last=Perry |title=Arakawa to face Paltin in the fall |url=http://mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/588523/Arakawa-to-face-Paltin-in-the-fall.html?nav=5172 |work=Maui County Council |date=2014-08-10 |access-date=2016-06-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816072513/http://mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/588523/Arakawa-to-face-Paltin-in-the-fall.html?nav=5172 |archive-date=2014-08-16 }} He was the longest-serving mayor of Maui.{{cite news|first=Jill|last=Engledow|title=A Decade on Maui: On MNKO's 10th anniversary, we look back at how our island has changed|url=http://www.mauimagazine.net/Maui-Magazine/July-2006/A-Decade-on-Maui/index.php?cparticle=5&siarticle=4|work=Maui Magazine|date=2006-07-01|access-date=2010-09-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008142136/http://www.mauimagazine.net/Maui-Magazine/July-2006/A-Decade-on-Maui/index.php?cparticle=5&siarticle=4|archive-date=2011-10-08}}
Life
Tavares was born in Makawao, Maui, Hawaii, on September 24, 1919.
In 1978, Maui Mayor Elmer Cravalho won reelection to a second term, but he suddenly left office only months later.{{cite news |title=Other Hawai'i mayors who died in office |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Jun/23/br/hawaii80623070.html |work=Honolulu Advertiser |date=2008-06-23 |access-date=2011-07-09 |archive-date=2018-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825143158/http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Jun/23/br/hawaii80623070.html |url-status=dead }} The vacancy left by Cravalho's resignation necessitated a special mayoral election. In October 1979, Hannibal Tavares won the special mayoral election to complete the remainder of Cravalho's term.
Tavares went on to win reelection and became Maui's longest-serving mayor to date. He retired from office on January 2, 1991, and was succeeded by Republican Linda Lingle.
Tavares's daughter, Charmaine Tavares, served as mayor of Maui from January 2, 2007, to January 2, 2011.{{cite news |title=Mayoral candidate profiles for Maui |url=http://www.lahainanews.com/page/content.detail/id/501288/Mayoral-candidate-profiles-for-Maui.html?nav=19 |work=Lahaina News |date=2010-09-16 |access-date=2010-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206085716/http://www.lahainanews.com/page/content.detail/id/501288/Mayoral-candidate-profiles-for-Maui.html?nav=19 |archive-date=2010-12-06 |url-status=dead }} Both are the descendants of Portuguese immigrants who settled in Hawaii.{{cite news|first=Gary T.|last=Kubota|title=Maui effort honors 2 ethnic groups|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/society-social-assistance-lifestyle/religion-spirituality/14083372-1.html|work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |publisher=AllBusiness.com |date=2010-03-10|access-date=2010-09-27}}
He died at Maui Memorial Hospital in Wailuku, Hawaii, on January 17, 1998, at the age of 78.{{cite news|title=Hannibal Tavares services Friday |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/1998/01/21/news/obits.html |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=1998-01-21|access-date=2013-08-26}} A resident of Kula, Maui, Tavares was survived by his wife, Harriet Y.T; three children, Charmaine Tavares, Sharon Klaschka, and Gary Tavares; three sisters, Helen Medeiros, Margaret Roberts and Sophie Stone; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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Category:Mayors of Maui County
Category:People from Kula, Hawaii
Category:American people of Portuguese descent
Category:20th-century mayors of places in Hawaii
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