Tools for Educators - Photo Gallery: John A. Burns
John A. Burns, then police captain, a protégé of Shivers who publicly vouched for Japanese Americans before the war; later Delegate of Hawaii at Statehood and three term governor.
Burns at 37 left a secure job to regroup Democratic Party
John A. Burns as a police department officer
Burns celebrating victory with protege Daniel K. Inouye
John Burns around 1962 election to governor
Burns won his third and final term as governor in 1970
Burns as delegate to Congress
Burns returned from Washington DC with passage of the Hawaii Statehood Act in 1959
Gov. Burns with Eric Shinseki, later Army Chief of Staff
Burns, often stern, was nicknamed The Great Stone Face