- Lawrence M. Judd
Lawrence McCully Judd (
March 20 ,1887 -October 4 ,1968 ) was the seventh Territorial Governor of Hawai'i. He was devoted to theHansen's Disease -afflicted residents ofKalaupapa onMolokai . Judd made several fact-finding tours during his tenure in theHawaii 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 ofAmerican Samoa fromMarch 4 toAugust 4 ,1953 .Judd was born in Honolulu,
Hawaii , the grandson of the American Board of Mission'sGerrit P. Judd who was advisor toKamehameha III and co-founder ofPunahou School . Judd attended theUniversity of Pennsylvania where he was a member of its fraternity chapter ofPhi 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 ofAlexander Graham Bell , Grace Hubbard Fortescue, convicted in the territorial courts of manslaughter in the death of a local man, Joseph Kahahawai. Hiring defense lawyerClarence 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 atIolani 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.External links
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