John Edward Bush
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| Royal Governor of Kauaʻi | |
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In office January 4, 1877 – 1880 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Kanoa |
| Succeeded by | Frederick W. Beckley |
| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office August 14, 1880 – September 27 |
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| Preceded by | Samuel Gardner Wilder |
| Succeeded by | Henry A. P. Carter |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office May 20, 1882 – August 8 |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office August 8, 1882 – July 26, 1883 |
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| Preceded by | Simon Kaloa Kaai |
| Succeeded by | Walter Murray Gibson |
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February 15, 1842 Honolulu, Oʻahu |
| Died | June 28, 1906 (aged 64) Honolulu, Oʻahu |
| Nationality | Hawaii United States |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Other political affiliations |
Democrat |
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John Edward Bush (February 15, 1842 – June 28, 1906), also known as John Edwin Bush, was a politician and newspaper publisher in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
John E. Bush was born in Honolulu on February 15, 1842. He was the son of George Henry Bush (1807–1853), a native of Suffolk, who came to Hawaii from England in 1825, and his Hawaiian wife. Thus he was of mixed native Hawaiian and Caucasian descent (known as hapa haole). Growing up in a multicultural environment, he could read, write, and speak at least the English and Hawaiian language fluently. He sometimes used ʻAiluene Buki as the Hawaiian version of his name. He worked for a while on a whaling ship, and then learned the printing trade at the offices of the Hawaiian Gazette. His younger brother James Wood Bush was a sailor in the Union Navy and veteran of the American Civil War.
In 1875, he became a marriage license agent, and 1876 a land appraiser on Oʻahu island. On January 4, 1877, King Kalākaua appointed him Royal Governor of the island of Kauaʻi. Kalākaua also appointed him to his Privy Council on September 1, 1878, and the House of Nobles in the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom on April 24, 1880. Bush served until the office was made elective in 1887.
On August 14, 1880, he became Minister of the Interior in Kalākaua's cabinet, but he was replaced about six weeks later on September 27. He temporarily acted as Minister of Foreign Affairs replacing Celso Caesar Moreno for much of the same time as well, until William Lowthian Green took the office on a more permanent basis. He was back in the cabinet again on May 20, 1882, as Minister of Finance, but served only until August 8 of that year. At that time he took the interior ministry again, and served until July 26, 1883. After another temporary replacement, Charles T. Gulick became interior minister. Bush was accused of "irregularities" in awarding public works contracts.
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