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.

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.

[2] 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.

[3] The contentious general election of 1892 resulted in a divided legislature that dragged on for 171 days, during which the queen appointed multiple cabinets, only for them to be forced out by a legislative resolution of want of confidence.

Without giving this cabinet any trial, they were immediately voted out.Creighton was a royalist who became embroiled in the January 1895 Wilcox rebellion to restore the monarchy after the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

[10] Lorrin A. Thurston, who had been a key player in the overthrow of the Kingdom, and a leading proponent of annexation by the United States, characterized the exiles as, "...stirring up trouble among the kanakas [native Hawaiians]," and long associated with "...the most lawless elements at Honolulu.