John L. Stevens
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John L. Stevens, formally John Leavitt Stevens (August 1, 1820–February 8, 1895), was the United States Department of State Minister to the Kingdom of Hawai'i when he was accused of conspiring to overthrow Queen Lili'uokalani in association with the Committee of Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston and Sanford B. Dole. Although the initial Blount Report of July 17, 1893 found him culpable, further investigation by the bi-partisan Morgan Committee, commissioned at the request of President Cleveland, exonerated both Stevens and the U.S. peacekeepers who had landed during the Hawaiian Revolution. The Senate, on February 26, 1894 presented the results of the investigation in the Morgan Report, which led to Cleveland's complete reversal on the matter.
Stevens was born in the town of Mount Vernon in Kennebec County, Maine. He lived in Augusta in the same county. He began as a newspaper editor before becoming Maine's delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1860. He joined the United States Department of State and was appointed foreign Minister to Paraguay, Uruguay, Sweden and Hawaii. President of the United States Grover Cleveland forced Stevens into retirement in 1893 following the Hawaiian Revolution. He died two years later.
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