:Quentin Kawānanakoa

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Quentin Kawānanakoa

|image = Quentin Kawananakoa, 2013 King Kamehemeha Parade, crop.jpg

|office1 = Member of the
Hawaii House of Representatives
from the 26th district

|term_start1 = January 1995

|term_end1 = January 1999

|predecessor1 = Rod Tam

|successor1 = Sylvia Luke

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|9|28}}

|birth_place = Monterey, California, U.S.

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = Republican Party

|spouse = Elizabeth Broun

|children = Kincaid Kawānanakoa
Riley Kawānanakoa

|parents = Edward A. Kawānanakoa
Carolyn Willison Kawānanakoa

}}

Quentin Kūhiō Kawānanakoa (born September 28, 1961) is an American politician and member of the House of Kawānanakoa.{{Cite news |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Sep/12/ln/FP609120386.html |title=Kawananakoa eager for comeback |last=Brannon |first=Johnny |date=September 12, 2006 |work=The Honolulu Advertiser |access-date=December 5, 2019}} Kawānanakoa is an organizer of the Republican Party of Hawaii. He is also an heir to the James Campbell estate.

Early years

Kawānanakoa was born September 28, 1961. He was the second son of his father Edward A. Kawānanakoa and his mother Carolyn Willison Kawānanakoa. He was raised in Honolulu where he graduated from Punahou School. Kawānanakoa went on to study at the University of Southern California. He returned to O{{okina}}ahu and graduated from the William S. Richardson School of Law. Upon obtaining his Juris Doctor degree, he served in private practice at the law firm Case, Bigelow & Lombardi until 2000.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}} He was a member of the inaugural 1997 class of the Pacific Century Fellows.{{cite news |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/97/07/11/features/donnelly.html |title=Hawaii |department=Home Zone: Life and Home Day and Night |date=July 11, 1997 |first=Dave |last=Donnelly |newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |access-date=April 18, 2021}}

Political life

In 1994, Kawānanakoa followed in his ancestors' footsteps and got involved in politics. Like his great-grandmother Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa and great uncle Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana{{okina}}ole, Kawānanakoa joined the Republican Party of Hawaii for its pro-business stance. He ran and won an election for the Hawai`i State House of Representatives, an office he served through 1998. He rose through the ranks of party leadership becoming minority floor leader. During an attempt to mount a challenge for the Congressional seat held by Neil Abercrombie, Kawānanakoa abruptly retired from active political life after being hospitalized.

In April 2006, after eight years out of the public eye, Kawānanakoa announced his run for the Congressional seat held by Ed Case, who chose not to run for U.S. Senate. He declared his candidacy on April 23, 2006. In the primary elections held on September 24, 2006, Kawānanakoa was narrowly defeated by State Senator Robert Hogue. The final vote total was Hogue: 8,393 votes (45.6%) vs. Kawānanakoa: 8,194 votes (44.5%). Senator Hogue went on to lose to Mazie Hirono.

In 2008, Kawānanakoa unsuccessfully ran for the Hawaii State House of Representatives. His opponent in the November 4, 2008, election was Democrat Chris Kalani Lee. Lee won with 5,885 votes to Kawānanakoa's 3,374 votes.{{cite web|url=http://hawaii.gov/elections/results/2008/general/files/histatewide.pdf | year =2008 | title = General Election Results|access-date=March 5, 2009|publisher=Office of Elections, State of Hawaii }}

Family

In September 1995, Kawānanakoa married Elizabeth Broun, a native of Jamaica.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115128545/kawananakoa-weds/ |title=Kawananakoa Weds |date=September 11, 1995 |newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |department=Political File |page=3 |access-date=December 24, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com }} Their first child, Kincaid Kawānanakoa, was born in June 1997.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115129914/daddy-quentin-kincaid/ |title=Daddy Quentin |date=July 7, 1997 |newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |department=Political File |page=3 |access-date=December 24, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com }} In December 1999, their second child, Riley, was born.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115130744/kawananakoa-family-business/ |title=Kawananakoa spending time in family business |date=June 14, 2000 |newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |department=What Ever Happened to .... |page=3 |access-date=December 24, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}} Quentin is the great-grandson of Prince David Kawānanakoa and Princess Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa through his paternal grandmother Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa.{{cite news |last=Zoellick|first=Sarah |title= Sacred Grounds |newspaper=Honolulu Star-Advertiser |date= June 9, 2013 | pages = A1, A6 |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114715487/sacred-grounds-page-a6/}}