Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Sanford Ballard Dole
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- S. B. Kolo; Presidena Dole; Kiaʻāina Dole; Poʻeikohoʻia Dole; S. B. Dole; President Dole; Governor Dole; Representative Dole
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Description area
Dates of existence
April 24, 1844 - June 9, 1926
History
Sanford Ballard Dole was born i ka ʻāina (land) o Punahou, ahapuaʻa (district) o Honolulu, moku (district) o Kona, mokupuni (island) o Oʻahu, Ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina (Hawaiian Archipelago) on April 23, 1844 to Daniel Dole (1808-1878) and Emily Hoyt Ballard Dole. His parents were part of the ninth company of Protestant missionaries from the Boston-based American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) that arrived in Hawaiʻi on May 21, 1841. Daniel became a teacher, and later principal, at Oʻahu College (Punahou School), a school established for the educating of missionary children. Sanford’s mother, Emily, died four days after his birth from complications and on April 27, 1846 his father married Charlotte Close Knapp, a fellow American Protestant missionary. In 1855, when Sanford was eleven, the family moved to Kōloa, Kauaʻi.
Sanford was educated for one year at Oʻahu College and then sent to Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1867 and went to work in a nearby Boston law office. Sanford returned to Hawaiʻi in 1868 and practiced law. In 1873, he married Anna Prentice Cate. In 1879, the couple adopted the 13yr-old Lizzie Napolean. They had no biological children.
Sanford ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Hawaiian Kingdom Legislature in 1874. His career in politics would begin in 1886 when he was elected as a representative of Kauaʻi in the Hale Poʻe Koho ʻIa (House of Representatives). In December of that year Dole would join the executive committee of a secret hui (group) known as the Hawaiian League. This hui of white businessmen, church leaders, and politicians sought the end of native rule in the Kingdom and plotted a military takeover of government that resulted in the July 6, 1887 coup d etat in which the Native monarch, Mōʻī David Laʻamea Kalākaua, remained in the position of chief executive but was stripped of most powers. In 1893 Dole would head a group of mostly the same men under a different name--Committee of Safety--in another coup that ended rule by the Hawaiian monarchy. Dole would go on to head the following three iterations of government in Hawaiʻi; provisional government, republic, and territory of the United States.
Places
Kōloa, Kauaʻi, 1855-1864; Punahou, 1865; Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., 1866-1867;
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Representative, Kauaʻi, Hawaiian Kingdom Legislature, 1884 and 1886 sessions.
President, Provisional Government of Hawaiʻi, January 17, 1893 - July 4, 1894.
President, Republic of Hawaiʻi, July 4 1894 - August 12, 1898.
Governor, Territory of Hawaiʻi, June 14, 1900 - Nov. 23, 1903.
Federal District Court Justice, U.S. District Court of Hawaiʻi, Nov. 23, 1903 - Dec. 16, 1915.
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
Mother - Emily Hoyt Ballard (1808-1844)
Father - Daniel Dole (1808-1878)