Charles F. Creighton
Charles F. Creighton (1862–1907) was a member of Queen Liliʻuokalani's Cabinet Ministers as Attorney General of the Kingdom of Hawaii for the period November 1–8, 1892. Following the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, he was arrested for his involvement in the 1895 Wilcox rebellion attempt to restore the monarchy. He accepted temporary exile to the United States to avoid a lengthy incarceration. His father Robert James Creighton had served as Kalākaua's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Background Born in Auckland, New Zealand, he graduated from the Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California, and became a practicing attorney in Hawaii. His father Robert James Creighton had emigrated from Derry, Ireland at an early age. The elder Creighton had been an editor of the Honolulu Advertiser, was a close friend to the family of Claus Spreckels, and had been King Kalākaua's Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1886. Cabinet minister The Bayonet Constitution that Kalākaua had been compelled to sign in 1887 allowed the monarch to appoint the cabinet, but transferred the power of their removal to the legislature alone. A legislative resolution of want of confidence would oust an entire cabinet. After her brother's funeral, the queen demanded the resignations