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James Keauiluna Kaulia (August 16, 1860 – April 20, 1902) was a Native Hawaiian politician and patriotic leader during the opposition to the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the annexation of Hawaii to the United States.

Life
He served as the President of Hui Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiian Patriotic League), from 1896 until 1900

Co-lead with David Kalauokalani, the 1897–1898 Hawaiian Commission to Washington, DC, bearing Kūʻē Petitions.

Vice-President of the Home Rule Party of Hawaii

''James Keauiluna Kaulia—community lead- ership, politics. James Kaulia was born on 16 August 1860 at Hōlualoa, Kona, Hawaiʻi. His parents were G. W. and Eva Laioha. When he was three years old, he was adopted by G. and Mikala Ahia. The family moved to Honolulu, where young Kaulia attended Kawaiahaʻo district school and Kehehuna school. He married Maraea Malaihi in 1879. In the same year, his mother, Mikala Ahia, married Asa Kaulia. James became his adopt- ed son and took his name. James studied law while working in the sheriff's office in Hilo under J. L. Kaulukou and S. K. Kāne. When Joseph Nāwahī founded Hui Hawaiʻi Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiian Patriotic League) after the overthrow in 1893, Kaulia served as secretary. After the death of Nāwahī in 1896, Kaulia was elected president of the Hui. He led the Hui in the massive anti- annexation petition drive in 1897. He was one of four delegates selected to take the petitions to Washington, D.C.; the others were David Kalauokalani, William Auld, and John Richardson. Their efforts succeeded in defeating the 1897 Treaty of Annexation. In 1900, Hui Aloha ʻĀina (under Kaulia) and Hui Kālaiʻāina (under Kalauokalani) merged, becoming the Independent Home Rule Party, and Kauila became its vice-president. He died in 1902 at the young age of 42 at his home at Kaumakapili Church, after spending the morning helping prisoners at the jail- house in Honolulu assert their civil rights.''

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Personal life
In 1879, he married Maria Kaukai or Kaaukai (born 1865). They had seven children, but only one survived: their son James K. Kaulia, Jr. (1885–?) worked for Davies & Company in Honolulu and married Mabel A. K. Kaulia with whom he had descendants.