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Lorrin A. Thurston
Lorrin A. Thurston was a Honolulu lawyer and publisher, grandson of American missionaries, who led the Committee of Safety that overthrew Queen Liliʻuokalani in January 1893. Earlier he had helped force the so-called Bayonet Constitution on King Kalākaua in 1887. He lobbied in Washington for annexation, achieved in 1898, and later owned the Honolulu newspaper the Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
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