Charles Henry Rose was Sheriff of the Honolulu Police Department

Honolulu Police Department

The Honolulu Police Department is the principal law enforcement agency of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawai'i, headquartered in the Alapa'i Police Headquarters in Honolulu CDP....

 (modern equivalent to Chief of Police

Chief of police

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)

Early life

Charles Henry Rose was born on November 4, 1873 in Honolulu, Hawaii

Hawaii

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 to Charles Henry Rose and Mary A. Sylva. He attended Saint Louis School

Saint Louis School

Saint Louis School, located in the town of Kaimuki in Honolulu, Hawaii, is a historic Roman Catholic college preparatory school for boys founded in 1846 to serve the needs of early Hawaiian Catholics in the former Kingdom of Hawaii...

. In 1889 Rose began work at Wilder Steamship Company as an office boy and moved up to passenger agent. He married Rosie M. Senna in 1899.

Police

In 1907 Rose was appointed by then Sheriff Curtis P. Iaukea as Chief Clerk of the Honolulu Police Department

Honolulu Police Department

The Honolulu Police Department is the principal law enforcement agency of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawai'i, headquartered in the Alapa'i Police Headquarters in Honolulu CDP....

. He was elected Deputy Sheriff in 1908 for two terms. Rose became Sheriff

Sheriff

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 of Honolulu in 1914 appointed by Sheriff William P. Jarrett

William Paul Jarrett

William Paul Jarrett was an American legal officer and politician.Jarrett was born August 22, 1877 and grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu, and attended Saint Louis School. His father was William H. Jarrett and mother was Emma Stevens. He married Mary H.K. Clark.He was one of the...

 to succeed him between elections, while Jarrett was promoted to High Sheriff of the Territory of Hawaii. Rose gave ex-mayor Joseph Fern a job after leaving office in 1915 by appointing him City Jailer. Rose remained Sheriff until 1923, through World War I

World War I

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. He had been a Democrat and was elected third district Senator in the Hawaii Senate

Hawaii Senate

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 in 1925.

Reference

• Men of Hawaii Volume 2 edited by John William Siddall
  
• Rose, Charles H. at Hawaii State Archives Digital Collection