Republic of Hawaii

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The Republic of Hawaii was a short-lived one-party state in Hawaiʻi between July 4, 1894, when the Provisional Government of Hawaii had ended, and August 12, 1898, when it became annexed by the United States as an unincorporated and unorganized territory. In 1893, the Committee of Public Safety overthrew Queen Liliʻuokalani, the monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, after she rejected the 1887 Bayonet Constitution. The Committee of Public Safety intended for Hawaii to be annexed by the United States; however, President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat opposed to imperialism, refused. A new constitution was subsequently written while Hawaii was being prepared for annexation.

1894 — 1898  WikimediaWikidata



View from Iolani Palace, c. 1895View from Iolani Palace, c. 1895
President Dole and his Cabinet (PP-28-7-021)President Dole and his Cabinet (PP-28-7-021)
Sanford B. Dole and Lorrin A. ThurstonSanford B. Dole and Lorrin A. Thurston
President Dole and his CabinetPresident Dole and his Cabinet
President Dole and his Cabinet (PPWD-4-2-016, original)President Dole and his Cabinet (PPWD-4-2-016, original)
President Dole and his Cabinet (PPWD-4-2-017, original)President Dole and his Cabinet (PPWD-4-2-017, original)
President Dole and his Cabinet (PP-28-7-006)President Dole and his Cabinet (PP-28-7-006)
Members of the Constitutional Convention, Republic of Hawaii (PNLPC-15-07925, original)Members of the Constitutional Convention, Republic of Hawaii (PNLPC-15-07925, original)
Title page of Title page of "Affairs in Hawaii," also known as the Blount Report (Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894. Appendix 2)
President Dole and his Cabinet (PP-71-3-033)President Dole and his Cabinet (PP-71-3-033)