Bina Mossman

Bina Kailipaina Nieper Mossman (January 7, 1893 – May 20, 1990) was an American ukulele player, vocalist, composer, and Republican Party office holder.

[3] After the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote, Bina began working behind the scenes in Hawaii's Republican Party.

With her first political convention, she involved herself in committee work, and was elected to handle music entertainment for meetings.

Bina served as the first woman legislator from Hawaii's 5th district of Oahu for three terms, beginning in 1938.

[7] According to her 1971 account for the Watamull Foundation Oral History Project, during the Queen's lying in state and funeral, the glee club was chosen to be part of the kahili bearers who stood watch over her body for two hours at a time, waving the kahilis and singing Liliuokalani's compositions.