Edmund Pearson Dole (February 28, 1850 – December 31, 1928) was a lawyer from New England who served as the first Attorney General of the Territory of Hawaii, and argued a case up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

[4] By June 1895 he was practicing law in Honolulu,[5] and acting as assistant to Henry Ernest Cooper as Attorney General of Hawaii.

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.

[13] The case had the implication of invalidating many legal procedures during the time between July 1898 when the Newlands Resolution annexed Hawaii by the United States, and April 1900 when the Hawaiian 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.