Wise switched party lines , becoming a member of the Republican Party of Hawaii in 1905 , and attended the 1912 Republican National Convention . He served on the Hawaii Territorial Legislature as a clerk on the House of Representatives and the Hawaii Territorial Senate for multiple years . In 1919 , he was elected and served a four-year term Senator from the Third District . He joined Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole , the Congressional delegate from Hawaii , in support of the passage of the Homelands Act of 1921 . Despite Wise 's and Kūhiō 's wishes , the Act contained high blood-quantum requirements , and leased land instead of granting it fee-simple , creating a perpetual government institution . In between his political career , he worked as a contractor on the island of Hawaii and helped translated Hawaiian legends for the Bishop Museum . In December 1923 , President Calvin Coolidge appointed Wise as director of prohibition enforcement during the prohibition era
1912 Republican National Convention
1912 Republican National Convention
John Henry Wise