Dole declared Hawaii an independent republic. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley.
Hawaii. During that time, Hawaii was still under a monarch rule. The ruler was Queen Liliuokalani. She was the only female Regnant of Hawaii. She was imprisoned and died a few years later from a Stroke in 1917 b/c of all the stress of imprisonment and worrying about her people. During that time, she wrote a song called "Aloha Oe". She will be missed.
He failed to win the Republican nomination at the 1912 convention. Taft then took his place, but Roosevelt was disappointed by his conservative measures and created the Bull Moose Party.
