Delos Carleton Emmons (January 17, 1889 – October 3, 1965) was a Lieutenant General in the United States Army.
Essentially a "desk general," he was the military governor of Hawaii in the aftermath of the Attack on Pearl Harbor and administered the replacement of normal U.S.
banknotes with special war-emergency US banknotes in case the islands were invaded.
He is credited with preventing the mass evacuation of Japanese-Americans from Hawaii, which many have called a shameful episode of racism and jingoism that was felt hardest on the mainland.