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Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox (February 15, 1855 – October 23, 1903), nicknamed the Iron Duke of Hawaiʻi, was a Native Hawaiian whose father was an American and whose mother was Hawaiian. A revolutionary soldier and politician, he led uprisings against both the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom under King Kalākaua and the ...
Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox (February 15, 1855 – October 23, 1903), nicknamed the Iron Duke of Hawaiʻi, was a Native Hawaiian whose father was an American and whose mother was Hawaiian. A revolutionary soldier and politician, he led uprisings against both the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom under King Kalākaua and the Republic of ...
The Wilcox rebellion of 1889 (also known as the Wilcox insurrection of 1889) was a revolt led by Robert Wilcox to force King Kalākaua of Hawaii to reenact the Hawaiian Constitution of 1864 from the Constitution of 1887.
In 1889, Robert W. Wilcox led an insurrection against the so-called "Reform Government," composed of a small cadre of sugar planters, missionary descendents, and their allies, who two years earlier had imposed the "Bayonet Constitution" upon King Kalākaua.
Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox (February 15, 1855 – October 23, 1903), nicknamed the Iron Duke of Hawai ʻ i, was a Native Hawaiian revolutionary soldier and politician.
Robert Wilcox was one of the few Hawaiian leaders who possessed a fiery militancy and took up armed struggle as an option. Actually a part-Hawaiian, Wilcox was born on the island of Maui in 1855 to a U.S. sea captain named William Slocum Wilcox and Kalua Makoleokalani, a Hawaiian descended from Maui Ali’i (Royal Chiefs).
His focus on territorial politics, devotion to Native-Hawaiian concerns, and strong preference for Hawaiian independence were all hallmarks of his brief U.S. House career. Robert William Wilcox was born in Kahalu, Honuaula, on the island of Maui, in the Kingdom of Hawaii, on February 15, 1855.
