Edmund Pearson Dole | |
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| Attorney General of Hawaii | |
| In office June 14, 1900 – February 1, 1903 | |
| Governor | Sanford B. Dole |
| Preceded by | Henry Ernest Cooper |
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| Born | (1850-02-28)February 28, 1850 Skowhegan, Maine |
| Died | December 31, 1928(1928-12-31) (aged 78) Keene, New Hampshire |
| Spouse | Eleanor Gallagher |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Edmund Pearson Dole (February 28, 1850 – December 31, 1928) was a lawyer fromNew England who served as the firstAttorney General of theTerritory of Hawaii, and argued a case up to the U.S. Supreme Court. He also wrote several novels.
Edmund Pearson Dole was born February 28, 1850, inSkowhegan, Maine. His father was classical language teacher Isiah Dole (1819–1892), and his mother was Elizabeth Todd Pearson (died 1851).[1] Dole graduated fromWesleyan University inMiddletown, Connecticut, in 1874. He married Gertrude Ellen Davenport in 1878. He studied law underCharles Robinson Jr., graduated from law school atBoston University, and was admitted to the bar atSuffolk County, Massachusetts. He practiced as a law partner of Farnum Fish Lane inKeene, New Hampshire. He served asCheshire County Solicitor in 1880 and 1881, similar to a modernDistrict Attorney.[2] He wrote a book trying to explain the law profession to the public in 1887. He then moved toSeattle in 1890. In 1891 he was offered the position of dean of a new law school inSpokane.[3]
His cousinSanford Ballard Dole had become president of theRepublic of Hawaii and wrote to him for help.[4] By June 1895 he was practicing law inHonolulu,[5] and acting as assistant toHenry Ernest Cooper asAttorney General of Hawaii.
Dole published a novelThe Stand-By in 1897 with a hero who promotedProhibition but was in love with the daughter of a brewer. It received praise from the Honolulu press:
Its woof of romance richly colored with incident and episode is struck into a warp of informing fact relative to one of the leading questions of the age.[6]
The New York Times, however, saw a more political message:
...as Mr Edmund P. Dole would have it, or as it seems to be written within the lines, the Republicans are the only lawabiding people on God's earth, the only virtuous, self-respecting souls, and the Democrats—quite the opposite. There is a tinge of fanaticism, then, in Mr. Dole's Romance.[7]
Dole replaced Cooper as attorney general on June 14, 1900.[8] He also published his second novelHiwa: a tale of ancient Hawaii in 1900.
Dole married Eleanor Gallagher, daughter of Bernard Gallagher ofSan Francisco, on September 5, 1901,[9] and they divorced in 1902. His ex-wife then became a singer inNew York City.[10][11]
He resigned as attorney general on February 1, 1903, to argue a case in theU.S. Supreme Court at the request ofPhilander C. Knox who wasUS Attorney General.[12] Federal District Court JudgeMorris M. Estee had overturned the conviction of Osaki Mankichi because he was never indicted by agrand jury, and was convicted by a simple majority of a jury instead of unanimously. Estee ruled the court proceeding denied the accused rights guaranteed by theUnited States Constitution.[13] The case had the implication of invalidating many legal procedures during the time between July 1898 when theNewlands Resolution annexed Hawaii by the United States, and April 1900 when theHawaiian Organic Act established a territorial government. The Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 that the continued operation of the Republic of Hawaii legal system was valid during the transition period.[14]Dole lived inWashington, D.C., for two years, then moved back to Seattle and practiced law again there. He died December 31, 1928, in Keene.[15]
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