Daily Quiz for September 15, 2009

Sandford B. Dole was proclaimed president of the Republic of Hawaii by the U. S. Congress in 1894, when Congress voted to annex the islands. Sugar business interests and local politicians, supported by U.S. Marines, had deposed Queen Liliuokalani in 1893. After annexation the following year, Dole, a friend of Liliuokalnai and a cousin of pineapple magnate James Dole, became the first and only president of the Republic of Hawaii.