Samuel Pailthorpe King
| Samuel Pailthorpe King | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii | |
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In office June 28, 1972 – November 30, 1984 |
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| Appointed by | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Cyrus Nils Tavares |
| Succeeded by | David Alan Ezra |
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April 13, 1916 Hankow, China |
| Died | December 7, 2010 (aged 94) Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Political party | Republican |
Samuel Pailthorpe King (April 13, 1916 – December 7, 2010) was an American lawyer and judge. Since 1972 he served as judge on the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.
King was born April 13, 1916 in Hankow, China while his father was in the United States Navy. His grandfather was ship captain and politician James A. King (1832–1899). He lost his left eye as a child of about six. After the family returned to Hawaii, he attended and graduated from Punahou School. His mother was part Native Hawaiian Pauline Nawahineokalai Evans. His father Samuel Wilder King (1886–1959), also part native Hawaiian, later became the delegate to US Congress of the Territory of Hawaii, and then Governor. He attended Yale University where he received a B.S. in 1937 and Yale Law School, where he graduated with an LL.B. in 1940.
He married Anne van Patten Grilk (born 1921) on July 8, 1944 in Boulder, Colorado. They had a son Samuel Pailthorpe King, Jr., and daughters Louise King Lanzilotti and Charlotte "Becky" King Stretch.
King started in private law practice Washington, DC in 1942. During World War II, he joined the United States Navy as a Japanese language translator from 1942 to 1946, and the Naval Reserve from 1946 to 1967. He returned to private practice of law in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1946 to 1961. He was a District magistrate for the City and County of Honolulu from 1956 to 1961. Governor William F. Quinn appointed him judge to the First Circuit Court of Hawaii from 1961 to 1970, and then a judge on the Family Court of Hawaii from 1966 to 1970. In 1970 he resigned as a judge and ran as a Republican for governor of Hawaii, losing to incumbent John A. Burns. He returned to private law practice from 1970 to 1972.
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