Art & History

National Statuary Hall Collection

Hawaii

Image of Hawaii statue

Kamehameha I, 1758–1819

Monarch

Ruthless in war and just in peace, King Kamehameha united the Hawaiian Islands for the first time. He made possible the introduction of common laws and the opening of trade, after years of bloody civil war.

C.P. Curtis and Ortho Fairbanks, after Thomas Gould, Bronze with gilt, 1968 Back to List >>
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