Carlos A. Long

{{Infobox person

|name=Carlos A. Long

|image=Carlos A. Long, 1908 (PCA).jpg

|caption=Long around 1902

|birth_date={{birth date|1874|3|4}}

|birth_place=Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii

|death_date=January 1943 (aged 68)

|death_place=Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii

|occupation=Attorney, Politician

|party=Republican
Home Rule

| module = {{Infobox college football player|embed=yes

|school=Georgetown Hoyas

|major=Law

|highschool=Punahou (1892–1893)

|class=LL B,1900

|pastschools=Georgetown (1898–1899)

|currentposition=Center

|highlights=

All-Southern (1899)

}}

Carlos Appiani Long (March 4, 1874 – January 1943) was an attorney and politician of the Territory of Hawaii. In his youth, he was a college football player at Georgetown University. His middle name is often spelled Appiani, Appianni or Apiani.

Early years

Long was born March 4, 1874, in Honolulu, capital of the then-independent Kingdom of Hawaii.{{sfn|Hawaii. Supreme Court|1944|page=780}} His parents were Charles Long, an Italian immigrant from Milan, and Julia Naoho (1859–1916), a Native Hawaiian from the island of Maui and relative of historian Samuel Kamakau. After his father's death, his mother remarried to John F. Colburn, who became a member of Queen Liliuokalani's cabinet during the final week before the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893. He had many siblings and half-siblings from his mother's two marriages.{{cite book|last1=Long|first1=Elia Austin|last2=Dolan|first2=Paul A.|title=Elia Austin Long|url=http://www.outriggercanoeclubsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Elia-Austin-Long-2002.pdf|date=April 23, 2002|publisher=Historical Committee of the Outrigger Canoe Club|location=Honolulu|access-date=December 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220092324/http://www.outriggercanoeclubsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Elia-Austin-Long-2002.pdf|archive-date=December 20, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2208030/the_honolulu_republican/|work=The Honolulu Republican|date=August 8, 1901|title=Home From Law School|access-date=April 13, 2015|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}

File:Carlos Long in 1895, close-up (PPWD-17-9-007).jpg

He received his early education at Saint Louis School and Punahou School (from 1892 to 1893), where he started playing football. He graduated from Santa Clara University and later studied law at Stanford University and finished his law degree at Georgetown University.{{sfn|Alexander|1907|page=59}}

= Georgetown =

While at Georgetown, he was a prominent center for the football team; his play reminding one writer of Allan Doucette of Harvard.{{cite news|title=Alien Footballists|date=November 20, 1899|page=7|work=Logansport Pharos-Tribune}} Long was unanimously elected captain of the 1899 team.{{sfn|Bealle|1947|page=41}}{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZpGAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA32|page=46|journal=Georgetown College Journal|volume=27|title=Athletics|year=1898}} That same year he was selected All-Southern by University of Virginia athletics director W. A. Lambeth in Outing, who notes "The position at center is easily filled, because Long, of Georgetown, in snapping the ball, blocking, breaking through, tackling and general play, stands without a near rival."{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZptUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA533|title=All-Southern Football Team|journal=Outing|volume=35|page=533|publisher=Outing Publishing Company|date=1900|access-date=March 5, 2015|via=Google books}} {{Open access}}{{cite news|title=Untitled|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2183132//|work=The Daily Tar Heel|date=January 31, 1900|page=2|access-date=April 10, 2015|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}

Political and legal career

After graduating from Georgetown with a degree in law, Long was admitted to bar in the District of Columbia and later returned to Hawaii, which had been annexed to the United States, where he passed the bar of Hawaii on October 16, 1901.{{sfn|Hawaii. Supreme Court|1944|page=780}}{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7819306/the_washington_times/|title=To Practice Law In Hawaii|date=July 24, 1901|access-date=December 11, 2016|via=Newspapers.com|work=The Washington Times|page=5}} {{Open access}}

Long entered politics as a member of the Home Rule Party of Hawaii.{{cite news|title=Must Be Cupid Or Wilcox|newspaper=The Hawaiian Star|location=Honolulu|date=July 26, 1902|page=1|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1902-07-26/ed-1/seq-1/}} He later joined with Hawaii Republican Party in 1902 and was elected to the House of Representatives for the Fourth District, and sat in the Legislature of Territory of Hawaii from 1903 to 1905.{{harvnb|Hawaii|Lydecker|1918|pages=267–272}}; {{cite web|title=Long, Carlos A. office record|work=state archives digital collections|publisher=state of Hawaii|url=http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/import/import/Government%20Office%20Holders%20-%20Name%20IMJ/L/Long,%20Carlos%20A.jpg|access-date=June 17, 2014}}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} During the 1903 legislative session, he proposed the so-called "Long Municipal Act", aimed at establishing home-rule and self-government for the citizens of Honolulu. The act was drafted by the African-American lawyer and Republican committee member Thomas McCants Stewart. Despite passing the house, it was vetoed by Governor Sanford B. Dole. Historian J. Clay Smith, Jr. noted this and other similar, contemporary legislation contributed to the local movement which eventually led to Hawaii's statehood in 1959.{{sfn|Smith|1999|page=492}}

Long later worked as a tax accessor for Kauaisee e. g. {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xV9BAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA178|page=178|title=All about Hawaii|year=1921}} until he moved back to Honolulu in 1929 where he became an estates administrator and was involved in the real estate business.

Personal

On July 30, 1895, he married his first wife Irene Martha Buchanan in Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace.{{sfn|Alexander|1907|page=59}}{{cite web|author=Hawaiʻi State Archives|year=2006|title=Long-Buchanan marriage record|work=Marriages – Oahu (1832–1910)|volume=1|via=Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library|url=http://ulukau.org/algene/cgi-bin/algene?e=q-001off-algene--00CL1--2----0--010---4-------0-1l--10en-Zz-1---20-about-Long%2c+Carlos+Apianni+Zz-+Irene+M%2e+Buchanan%09--00-1-1-00-0-0-000utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=algene&srp=0&srn=0&d=10-000080|access-date=June 5, 2014}}{{cite news|title=Local Brevities|newspaper=The Pacific Commercial Advertiser|location=Honolulu|date=July 31, 1895|page=7|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047084/1895-07-31/ed-1/seq-7/|access-date=November 12, 2016}} They divorced in 1898 and she remarried in 1900 to William H. Cornwell, Jr., the son of William H. Cornwell.{{cite news|title=Local and General News|newspaper=The Independent|location=Honolulu|date=November 29, 1897|page=3|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047097/1897-11-29/ed-1/seq-3/}}; {{cite news|title=Married|newspaper=The Hawaiian Star|location=Honolulu|date=June 15, 1900|page=1|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1900-06-15/ed-1/seq-1/}}

On April 4, 1912, he married Elizabeth Maunakapu Whiting (born 1885), daughter of Kapiho and William Austin Whiting. They had three children: Carlos "Sonny" Long, Leslie Long Pietsch and Elia Austin Long.{{cite news|title=Whiting–Long Nuptials|newspaper=The Hawaiian Star|location=Honolulu|date=April 5, 1912|page=8|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1912-04-05/ed-1/seq-8/|access-date=November 12, 2016}} He died in January 1943 and was buried in the Oahu Cemetery in Honolulu.{{cite sign|title=Grave Marker of Carlos Long|location=Honolulu, Hawaii|institution=Oahu Cemetery}} A memorial published in the records of the Supreme Court of Hawaii gives a description of his character:

Long was quiet, affable, sincere and a true friend of the Hawaiian race. He took a keen interest in civic affairs, and a personal interest in clean athletics. He was a good citizen. He leaves a family to whom he was devoted.{{sfn|Hawaii. Supreme Court|1944|page=780}}

References

Bibliography

{{cite book|last=Alexander|first=William DeWitt|author-link=William DeWitt Alexander|title=Oahu College: List of Trustees, Presidents, Instructors, Matrons, Librarians, Superintendents of Grounds and Students, 1841–1906. Historical Sketch of Oahu College|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GxADAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA59|year=1907|publisher=Hawaiian Gazette Company|location=Honolulu|oclc=16323595}}
{{cite book|last=Bealle|first=Morris Allison|title=The Georgetown Hoyas: The Story of a Rambunctious Football Team|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gGJLAAAAYAAJ|year=1947|publisher=Columbia Publishing Company|location=Washington, DC|oclc=4509683}}
{{cite book|author=Hawaii|editor-last=Lydecker|editor-first=Robert Colfax|title=Roster Legislatures of Hawaii, 1841–1918|location=Honolulu|publisher=Hawaiian Gazette Company|year=1918|url=https://archive.org/details/rosterlegislatur00hawarich|oclc=60737418|ref={{harvid|Hawaii|Lydecker|1918}}}}
{{cite book|author=Hawaii. Supreme Court|title=Hawaii Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=avtPAQAAIAAJ|year=1944|publisher=Advertiser Publishing Company|location=Honolulu|oclc=801052949}}
{{cite book|last=Smith|first=J. Clay Jr|title=Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844–1944|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lOIjQUG4aoC|year=1999|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|location=Philadelphia|isbn=0-8122-1685-7|oclc=27896267}}

Category:Punahou School alumni

Category:Santa Clara University alumni

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Category:American football centers

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Category:All-Southern college football players

Category:19th-century players of American football

Category:Players of American football from Honolulu

Category:1874 births

Category:1943 deaths

Category:Lawyers from Washington, D.C.

Category:Lawyers from Hawaii