Saturday, October 12, 2024
Hawai'i Free Press

Current Articles | Archives

Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Judge Samuel King funeral Wednesday
By News Release @ 7:16 PM :: 9418 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment

Remembering Federal Judge Samuel Pailthorpe King

Funeral to be held at St. Andrews Cathedral Wednesday December 29, 2010, 2:30pm

December 28, 2010 ---(Honolulu, Hawaii) The funeral service for retired federal Judge Samuel Pailthorpe King will be held tomorrow at St. Andrews’s Cathedral. A gathering will begin at 1:30pm, followed by the service at 2:30pm with the Order of Kamehameha entering the Cathedral on Beretania and Queen Emma/Alakea St.. An informal reception following the service with the family will be held on the lawn. King, 94 died on December 7, 2010.

Federal Judge Samuel Pailthorpe King was born in Hangkow, China on April 13, 1916. He was a self-described Navy kid, as his father was running a gunboat in China in 1910 on the Yangtze River. King graduated from Yale Law School, and then worked in the Honolulu Prosecutor’s office in 1941. After Pearl Harbor was bombed he wanted to join the Navy but with only one eye, his father Samuel Wilder King (Delegate for Hawaii and then Governor from ’52-‘56) had to help his son get into the Navy. While in the Navy, he attended Japanese language school in Boulder, CO and then served as an interpreter for the Navy. He was stationed in Hiroshima just two weeks after the atom bomb dropped. He later joined the Navy Reserve, retiring as a Captain.

While in private practice he became a state judge, and started the family court system in Hawaii and ran for governor in 1970 but lost to Governor Burns, and also served for a time as chair of the Republican Party. He was then approached by Senator Harold Fong to become a Federal Judge, and was sworn in 1972 and served throughout his life. In addition to his service in the judiciary, he used his notoriety to expose corruption within the Bishop Estate with the publication of the article entitled “Broken Trust”, co-written by Randall Roth, Walter Heen, Father Kekumanu and Gladys Brandt, and later with the release of the book of the same name. Sam King was the conscience of Hawaii and always strived to make it a better place.

Samuel Pailthorpe King is survived by wife Anne King, son Samuel P. King, Jr., daughters Louise K. Lanzilotti and Charlotte K. Stretch, sister Dr. Pauline N. King and six grand children. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations in the name of the Honorable Samuel P. King be sent to Kalikolehua-El Sistema Hawaii, 1735 Dole St. No. 110, Honolulu, HI 96822.

# # #

RELATED: Judge Samuel P King remembered

Image

Links

TEXT "follow HawaiiFreePress" to 40404

Register to Vote

2aHawaii

Aloha Pregnancy Care Center

AntiPlanner

Antonio Gramsci Reading List

A Place for Women in Waipio

Ballotpedia Hawaii

Broken Trust

Build More Hawaiian Homes Working Group

Christian Homeschoolers of Hawaii

Cliff Slater's Second Opinion

DVids Hawaii

FIRE

Fix Oahu!

Frontline: The Fixers

Genetic Literacy Project

Grassroot Institute

Habele.org

Hawaii Aquarium Fish Report

Hawaii Aviation Preservation Society

Hawaii Catholic TV

Hawaii Christian Coalition

Hawaii Cigar Association

Hawaii ConCon Info

Hawaii Debt Clock

Hawaii Defense Foundation

Hawaii Family Forum

Hawaii Farmers and Ranchers United

Hawaii Farmer's Daughter

Hawaii Federation of Republican Women

Hawaii History Blog

Hawaii Jihadi Trial

Hawaii Legal News

Hawaii Legal Short-Term Rental Alliance

Hawaii Matters

Hawaii Military History

Hawaii's Partnership for Appropriate & Compassionate Care

Hawaii Public Charter School Network

Hawaii Rifle Association

Hawaii Shippers Council

Hawaii Together

HiFiCo

Hiram Fong Papers

Homeschool Legal Defense Hawaii

Honolulu Navy League

Honolulu Traffic

House Minority Blog

Imua TMT

Inouye-Kwock, NYT 1992

Inside the Nature Conservancy

Inverse Condemnation

July 4 in Hawaii

Land and Power in Hawaii

Lessons in Firearm Education

Lingle Years

Managed Care Matters -- Hawaii

MentalIllnessPolicy.org

Missile Defense Advocacy

MIS Veterans Hawaii

NAMI Hawaii

Natatorium.org

National Parents Org Hawaii

NFIB Hawaii News

NRA-ILA Hawaii

Obookiah

OHA Lies

Opt Out Today

Patients Rights Council Hawaii

Practical Policy Institute of Hawaii

Pritchett Cartoons

Pro-GMO Hawaii

RailRipoff.com

Rental by Owner Awareness Assn

Research Institute for Hawaii USA

Rick Hamada Show

RJ Rummel

School Choice in Hawaii

SenatorFong.com

Talking Tax

Tax Foundation of Hawaii

The Real Hanabusa

Time Out Honolulu

Trustee Akina KWO Columns

Waagey.org

West Maui Taxpayers Association

What Natalie Thinks

Whole Life Hawaii