Kuhio, a celebrity during his lifetime, had spent decades working on behalf of the people of Hawaii but today few people know how great a mark he made.

Kuhio's legacy includes lighthouses, breakwaters, roads and parks and helping get women the vote.

His dream of giving Hawaiians self-sufficiency through land ownership became law but implementation has stumbled for a century.

Sugar permanently transformed Hawaii's landscape, propelled immigration and laid the foundation for an early middle class.

Prince Kuhio became a master at leading congressional delegations to Hawaii, winning converts to the causes he championed for the islands

The insistence of a Hawaiian prince cemented the military in the islands decades before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.