[Sanford Ballard]. President of the Republic of Hawaii, born at Honolulu in 1844, the son of an American missionary from Maine. After studying at Pubahan College, the son went to the United States and studied at Williams College in 1866. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, and returned to Honolulu and practiced law from 1870 to 1887, becoming afterward a judge of the supreme court. On the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893, he was chosen provisional president, and was confirmed chief executive of the island on the proclamation of the republic, July 4, 1894, his term of office being for six years.
