Everything about Lawrence M Judd totally explained
Lawrence McCully Judd (
March 20,
1887 -
October 4,
1968) was the seventh
Territorial Governor of Hawai'i. He was devoted to the
Hansen's Disease-afflicted residents of
Kalaupapa on
Molokai. Judd made several fact-finding tours during his tenure in the
Hawaii State Senate. As territorial governor, he overhauled the system of governance in the
leper colony. Judd became Kalaupapa's resident superintendent in
1947. He temporarily served as territorial governor of
American Samoa from
March 4 to
August 4,
1953.
Judd was born in
Honolulu,
Hawaii, the grandson of the American Board of Mission's
Gerrit P. Judd who was advisor to
Kamehameha III and co-founder of
Punahou School. Judd attended the
University of Pennsylvania where he was a member of its
fraternity chapter of
Phi Kappa Psi.
Lawrence M. Judd succeeded
Wallace Rider Farrington to serve as Governor of Hawaii from
1929 to
1934. A source of controversy during his Hawaii gubernatorial tenure, Judd commuted the sentence of socialite and niece of
Alexander Graham Bell, Grace Hubbard Fortescue, convicted in the territorial courts of manslaughter in the death of a local man, Joseph Kahahawai. Hiring defense lawyer
Clarence Darrow, Fortescue's case was known as the
Massie Affair, a focus of nationwide newspaper coverage. Massie's sentence of ten years in prison was whittled down to one-hour in the governor's chambers at
Iolani Palace.
Judd died on
October 4,
1968 in Honolulu and was interred in the city's Oahu Cemetery on Nuuanu Avenue.
Judd's service as resident superintendent of Kalaupapa was a subject in the
2003 historical novel and national bestseller called
Moloka'i by
Alan Brennert as well as the
2006 historical account,
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman.
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