William Henry Daniels (June 2, 1855 – April 17, 1897) was a Hawaiian judge, lawyer, and businessman of Wailuku, Maui during the Kingdom of Hawaii.

[1][2][3] William Henry Daniels was born on June 2, 1855, at Wailuku, on the island of Maui, of Native Hawaiian and British descent.

It also raised property requirements for suffrage, disenfranchised many poor Native Hawaiians and naturalized Asian citizens, and gave the vote to unnaturalized foreign residents of European or American descent.

Instigators of this coup d'état formed the Reform Party, drawing its memberships from Hawaiian conservatives and citizens of foreign descent.

[16][17] In the election of 1890, he ran as a member of the National Reform Party for a six-year term in the House of Nobles for the island of Maui but was defeated in the race.

[8][3] After paying the workers under his management, Daniels shot himself at his home in Kailua: Going into the house, he paid no attention whatever to his wife and children, who were there, but proceeded to a small side room.

[3]Daniel's obituary in The Hawaiian Star noted that he was "staunch Royalist and in him that party here lose their foremost leader.