Sanford Dole Quotes

Sanford Dole, whose relatives would eventually found the Dole Food Company we know today, also wrote and supported the need to increase Hawaiʻi’s population, whether by increasing the flow and residency of immigrant labor or by encouraging current residents to have large families. His view was that the islands would never reach their full productive power without occupying them to a much greater extent.

Another famous and notable American that would contribute heavily toward the Westernization of the Hawaiian Islands was Sanford Dole, who would serve as the only president of the Republic of Hawaii. Sanford was raised in Protestant missionary schools, and his father was the principal at what would eventually come to be known as the Punahou School. He was appointed as a justice in the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by King Kalakaua, and his cousin, James Dole, would eventually come to Hawaiʻi to found the Hawaiian Pineapple Company. This company would later become the Dole Food Company, which is well known even today.

Sanford Dole, the son of American missionaries who was born in Hawaii, but attended college and law school in the mainland, was appointed President of the Hawaiian Republic. On February 15, 1983, with Americans firmly in control of the government, President Harrison’s Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, drafted a treaty to annex Hawaii and submitted it to the Senate for ratification. The annexation of Hawaii had considerable support in the mainland.