The first branch in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) was founded on Maui in August 1851. By 1854, there were over 4,000 Hawaiian converts in 53 branches scattered throughout the islands, the Book of Mormon had been translated into Hawaiian, and converts gathered to a colony on Lanai. Missionaries left in 1857 at the time of the Utah War, but returned in 1864. In 1865 the Church purchased a sugar plantation in Laie, Oahu. The histories of the Laie plantation and the Hawaiian Mission intertwined as some mission presidents served simultaneously as plantation manager. In 1919 the plantation closed and the Laie Temple was dedicated on the same land.
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1850 September – 1851 February 22
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1850 December 12
Philip Bessom Lewis, Sr. Called as Mission President
1851 – 1855
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Silas Schellinger Smith Called as Mission President
1855 July 24 – 1857 October 6
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Henry William Bigler Set Apart as Mission President
1857 April 22 – 1858 October
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Joseph F. Smith Set Apart as Mission President
1864 March 2 – October 2
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Lorenzo Snow Departed from Home as Mission President
1864 March 2 – June
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Alma Lamoni Smith Set Apart as Mission President
1864 October 2 – 1868 June 15
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George Nebeker Set Apart as Mission President
1865 May 1 – 1873 June
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Frederick Augustus Herman Frank Mitchell Set Apart as Mission President
1873 May 19 – 1875 February 23
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Alma Lamoni Smith Set Apart as Mission President
1874 September 7 – 1876 July 3
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Simpson Montgomery Molen Set Apart as Mission President
1876 April 10 – 1879 July 21
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Harvey Harris Cluff Set Apart as Mission President
1879 April 9 – 1882 August 16
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Edward Partridge, Jr. Set Apart as Mission President
1882 April 10 – 1885 March 27
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Enoch Farr Set Apart as Mission President
1884 October 13 – 1887 May 30
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William Rice King Called as Mission President
1887 – 1890
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Ward Eaton Pack Set Apart as Mission President
1889 March 5 – 1892 January 5
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Matthew Noall Set Apart as Mission President
1891 November 13 – 1895 November 30
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Samuel Edwin Woolley Set Apart as Mission President
1895 August 9 – 1919
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Elias Wesley Smith Set Apart as Mission President
1919 May 8 – 1923 May 19
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Eugene Jefferson Neff Set Apart as Mission President
1923 February 2 – 1926 June 8
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William Mark Waddoups Set Apart as Mission President
1926 June 20 – 1930 October 26
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Henry Castle Hadlock Murphy Set Apart as Mission President
1930 August 19 – 1936 May 3
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Waldmar Francis Bailey Set Apart as Mission President
1936 June 3 – 1939 July 23
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Roscoe Cleon Cox Set Apart as Mission President
1939 July 15 – 1942 July 4
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Henry Castle Hadlock Murphy Departed from Home as Mission President
1944 March 8 – 1947 May 6
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