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TIL of Sanford B. Dole, who became the President of the Republic of Hawaii, after a pro-American coup d'état overthrew the Hawaiian monarch. His government secured Hawaii's annexation by the United States. His cousin founded the pineapple company that would become the Dole Food Company.

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