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Kamehameha V

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Kamehameha V

▪ king of Hawaii
also called  Lot Kamehameha  
born Dec. 11, 1830, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands [now in U.S.]
died Dec. 11, 1872, Honolulu
 king of Hawaii from 1863 to 1872.

      Succeeding to the throne on the death of his younger brother, Kamehameha IV, he immediately revealed his intention to rule with a strong hand, refusing at his inauguration to take the oath to maintain the existing, comparatively liberal constitution. After calling and dismissing a constitutional convention, he himself wrote and promulgated a new constitution (1864), which remained in effect for 23 years. He also imported the first wave of Japanese labourers, by a contract made in 1868. In the later years of his reign he grew so obese (weighing about 375 pounds [170 kg]) that he remained almost constantly confined to his palace, becoming at last unable to stand or support himself. He never married, and the Kamehameha dynasty ended with his death. The legislature elected a cousin, William Charles Lunalilo, to succeed him.

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