Background
He was born on March 10, 1904, at Honolulu, Oahu. He was educated abroad due to his father"s status as a former prince and politician.
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David Kawananakoa
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Education
He attended Oʻahu College, Fay School, in Southborough, Massachusetts. Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, and Belmont Military Academy, Belmont, California.
Career
He was christened at the Saint Augustine"s Church on May 22, 1904. Kawānanakoa served in World World War II with the United States Coast Guard. Kawānanakoa married three times: in 1929 to Eileen Hutchins, daughter of Rear-Admiral Charles Thomas Hutchins, United States Navy, and Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet.
She was the former wife of Lindsay Anton Faye and George R. Humphrey.
He entered a common-law marriage with Arvilla Kinslea. On October 24, 1937, after a wild party, Kinslea was found dead and stabbed in the neck with a broken piece of crockery.
Four years before, Kawānanakoa had received a suspended sentence for killing a woman due to his reckless driving. He confessed to the murder of Kinslea and was sentenced to several years in prison.
She was a daughter of Abraham Fornander.
Kawānanakoa died of a heart attack at Honolulu, Oahu, on May 20, 1953, at the age of 49. He was buried there in the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii at Mauna ʻAla in Nuʻuanu Valley. He was the last royal to be interred at the Royal Mausoleum.
He died without children.
