Charles Crane

{{For2|the American businessman|Charles Richard Crane|the American physician|Charles H. Crane}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Charles Crane

|image=Charles Crane (PNM-119-13027) (cropped).jpg

|caption=

|order1 = 6th

|office1 = Mayor of Honolulu{{!}}Mayor of City & County of Honolulu

|term_start1 = July 15, 1938

|term_end1 = January 2, 1941

|predecessor1 = George F. Wright

|successor1 = Lester Petrie

|birth_name = Charles Spencer Crane

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|01|04}}

|birth_place = Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii

|death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1958|09|13|1869|01|04}}

|death_place = Maui, Hawaii

|party = Republican

|alma_mater =

|restingplace =

}}

Charles Spencer Crane (January 4, 1869 – September 13, 1958) was a businessman and politician in Hawaii.

Life

Crane was born in Honolulu on January 4, 1869, the son of a whaler captain Ezra Dean Crane and Emma Ann Still Crane. He started working at the Honolulu telephone company. In February 1897 he worked in the business department of the Hawaiian Gazette Company, became assistant manager of the Gazette in 1900, and in November 1905 became manager of the publishing company.{{cite news |title= Chas. S. Crane Elected Gazette Co. Manager |newspaper= Hawaiian Gazette |date= November 7, 1905 |page= 1 |location= Honolulu |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1905-11-07/ed-1/seq-1/;words=Crane+Charles |access-date= October 10, 2010 }}

From 1908 to 1919 he published a Hawaiian language newspaper called Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.{{cite web |title=Background and historical significance of Ka Nupepa Kuokoa |author= Joan Hori |url= http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/nupepa_kuokoa/kuokoa_htm/kuokoa.html |access-date= October 10, 2010 }}

Crane married Emma Spurrell Thompson on October 16, 1922, at Hilo.{{Hawaiian Dictionaries | Marriage records Hawaii island (1911–1929) |D02-000034 |q=Crane |dic=gene |accessdate= October 10, 2010}}

He eventually became executive vice president of what would become the Honolulu Advertiser.{{cite book |title= Presstime in paradise: the life and times of The Honolulu advertiser, 1856-1995 |author= George Chaplin |date= February 1998 |isbn= 9780824820329 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=aEZlsHy70hUC&pg=PA128 }}{{rp|127–128}}

After Advertiser owner Lorrin A. Thurston died, his son Lorrin Potter Thurston took over in October 1931, and Crane resigned from the newspaper to go into politics. He was elected to the board of supervisors for the City and County of Honolulu.{{rp|173}}

He was appointed Mayor of Honolulu July 15, 1938 upon the death of George F. Wright, and served until January 2, 1941.{{Citation needed |date=October 2010}}

He was elected to the Territory of Hawaii senate 3rd district in 1943 and 1945.{{cite web |url= http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASH9b92/dcf63aed.dir/Crane,%20Charles%20S.jpg |title= Crane, Charles S. office record |work= state archives digital collections |publisher= state of Hawaii |access-date= October 10, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120403160131/http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASH9b92/dcf63aed.dir/Crane,%20Charles%20S.jpg |archive-date= April 3, 2012 |url-status= dead }}

He retired for a while to California, and then returned to live with his son Ezra Crane who was editor of the Maui News.{{rp|127–128}}

He died on Maui September 13, 1958.

Crane is memorialized in Honolulu by Crane Playground in the Kaimukī section of Honolulu at {{coord |21|17|9|N| 157|48|53|W| type:landmark_region:US-HI |display=inline |name=Crane Playground}}.{{Hawaiian Dictionaries |Crane |dic=pp |accessdate= October 10, 2010}}

References

{{succession box | before=George F. Wright| title=Mayor of Honolulu | years=1938-1941 | after=Lester Petrie }}

Category:1869 births

Category:1958 deaths

Crane, Charles Spencer

Category:Hawaii Republicans

Category:Hawaiian Kingdom people

Category:20th-century mayors of places in Hawaii