DOLE, SANFORD BALLARD ( 844–i 926) , jurist and statesman of the Hawaiian Islands, was born in Honolulu on April 23, 1844, the son of American missionaries. Af ter studying law in Boston he returned to Hawaii to become one of its leading law yers, a member of the legislature from 1884 to 1887, and a leader in the reform movement which secured the Constitution of 1887. Also in 1887 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court, which office he held until the monarchy was overthrown in 1893 by a revolution of which Dole was himself a leader. In May, 1893, he was elected by the Constitutional Convention as the first president of the Republic of Hawaii. With firmness and wisdom he guided the Republic through a difficult period, sup pressing revolutions and stabilizing the governmental machinery. When President Cleveland demanded the restoration of Queen Liliuokani to the throne Dole refused to yield, claiming that Cleve land was without authority to act. In 1898 he went to Washington in the interests of annexation, and when that event took place in 19oo Dole was appointed by President McKinley as the first ter ritorial governor. In 1903 he became United States district judge of Hawaii and in 19°9 was reappointed to a second term. At its expiration in Dm he retired to private life in Honolulu, where he died on June 9, 1926.