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{{about|the lawyer and judge|the Governor of Hawai'i|Samuel Wilder King|other people with a similar name|Samuel King (disambiguation)}}
{{Short description|American judge}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Samuel King
|image = Samuel Pailthorpe King.jpg
|office = [[Senior status|Senior Judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the District of Hawaii]]
|term_start = November 30, 1984
|term_end = December 7, 2010
|office1 = Chief Judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Hawaii]]
|term_start1 = 1974
|term_end1 = 1984
|predecessor1 = [[Martin Pence]]
|successor1 = [[Harold Fong]]
|office2 = Judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Hawaii]]
|appointer2 = [[Richard Nixon]]
|term_start2 = June 28, 1972
|term_end2 = November 30, 1984
|predecessor2 = [[Cyrus Nils Tavares]]
|successor2 = [[David Alan Ezra]]
|birth_name = Samuel Pailthorpe King
|birth_date = {{birth date|1916|4|13}}
|birth_place = [[Hankou]], [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|China]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|2010|12|7|1916|4|13}}
|death_place = [[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii]], U.S.
|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|father = [[Samuel Wilder King]]
|relatives = [[James A. King]]
|spouse = Anne van Patten Grilk
|children = 3
|education = [[Yale University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Science|BS]], [[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]])}}
}}

'''Samuel Pailthorpe King''' (April 13, 1916 – December 7, 2010) was an [[Law of the United States|American lawyer]] and [[judge]]. He served as a [[United States federal judge|United States district judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the District of Hawaii]].

==Life==

King was born April 13, 1916, in [[Hankou]], 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.<ref>{{Hawaiian Dictionaries |Marriages: Oahu (1911–1929) |D11-000508 |dic=gene |q="Pauline Nawahineokalai Evans" |accessdate= December 9, 2010 }}</ref> His father [[Samuel Wilder King]] (1886–1959), also part [[Native Hawaiian]], later became the delegate to the [[United States Congress]] from the [[Territory of Hawaii]], and then [[Governor of Hawaii|governor]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Transcript of Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox |publisher= [[PBS Hawaii]] |date= March 4, 2008 |url= http://www.pbshawaii.org/ourproductions/longstory_transcripts/LSS%20112%20Transcript%20-%20Judge%20Sam%20King.pdf |access-date= December 9, 2010 }}</ref>
He attended [[Yale University]] where he received a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in 1937 and [[Yale Law School]], where he graduated with a [[Bachelor of Laws]] in 1940.<ref name="star">{{cite news|author1=Gary T. Kubota|author2=Ken Kobayashi|date=December 8, 2010|title='Great judge,' 'great man'|newspaper=[[Honolulu Star Advertiser]]|url=http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20101208_Great_judge_great_man.html|access-date=December 9, 2010}}</ref>

===Personal===

King married Anne van Patten Grilk (born 1921) on July 8, 1944, in [[Boulder, Colorado|Boulder]], [[Colorado]]. They had a son, Samuel Pailthorpe King, Jr., and two daughters, Louise King Lanzilotti and Charlotte "Becky" King Stretch.<ref>{{cite news |title= Grilk, Anne van Patten (Mrs. Samuel P. King) |work= The US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project: The Interpreter |date= December 1, 2009 |number= 142 |publisher= [[University of Colorado at Boulder]] Libraries |url= http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/collections/jlsp/interpreter142.pdf |access-date= December 9, 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100610134734/http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/collections/jlsp/interpreter142.pdf |archive-date= June 10, 2010 }}</ref>

==Legal career==

King started in private law practice in [[Washington, D.C.]], 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 [[Hawaii State Circuit Courts|First Circuit Court of Hawaii]] from 1961 to 1970, and then a judge on the [[Hawaii State Family Courts|Family Court of Hawaii]] from 1966 to 1970.<ref name="fjc">{{FJC Bio|1282|nid=1383336|name=Samuel Pailthorpe King}}</ref> In 1970 he resigned as a judge and ran as a [[Hawaii Republican Party|Republican]] for governor of Hawaii, losing to incumbent [[John A. Burns]].<ref name="star"/> He returned to private law practice from 1970 to 1972.<ref name="fjc"/>

===Federal judicial service===

King was nominated by President [[Richard Nixon]] on May 22, 1972, to a seat vacated by Judge [[Cyrus Nils Tavares]] on the [[United States District Court for the District of Hawaii]]. He was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on June 28, 1972, and received his commission on June 28, 1972. He served as Chief Judge from 1974 to 1984. Although there were two judgeships authorized for the district, the other judge, [[Dick Yin Wong]], died in 1978. King had to try all the cases except for occasional help from visiting mainland judges. [[Walter Meheula Heen]] was nominated in January 1981 via a [[recess appointment]], but was not confirmed, so by the end of 1981 King was back to being the only judge until [[Harold Fong]] was confirmed in 1982.

===Notable cases===

From ''[[The New York Times]]'', "His favorite and longest-running case involved protecting a small finch-billed bird, the palila, by removing wild goats and sheep from the slopes of a volcano. He ruled in 1979 that the bird had standing to sue in federal court and monitored the bird’s welfare for the rest of his life."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=2010-12-11|title=Samuel P. King, Judge and Critic of Hawaiian Charity, Dies at 94|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12king.html|access-date=2020-06-07|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 1973, King presided over the case that convicted suspected organized crime leader Wilford Kalaauala "Nappy" Pulawa and five others for income tax evasion.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |title=Reputed Mob Boss Is Cited in Hawaii |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/25/archives/reputed-mob-boss-is-cited-in-hawaii-pulawa-and-5-others-face-tax.html |access-date=7 October 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=25 March 1973}}</ref> After taking senior status, he continued to hear cases, including a murder trial depicted in the book ''[[And the Sea Will Tell]]'' that took place on remote [[Palmyra Atoll]]. The trial moved to [[California]] because of pre-trial publicity, and included defense lawyers [[Vincent Bugliosi]] and [[Leonard Weinglass]].<ref>{{cite news |title= Isle judge was historic figure |date= December 9, 2010 |newspaper= [[Honolulu Star Advertiser]] |url= http://www.staradvertiser.com/editorials/20101209_Isle_judge_was_historic_figure.html |access-date= December 9, 2010 }}</ref> King's other high-profile rulings include one "barring federal authorities from using a telescope to peer into a home without a warrant and upholding a state land-reform law that allowed residential leaseholders to buy land from landlords, including the Bishop Estate."<ref name="lat">{{cite news |author1=Los Angeles Times Staff and Wire Reports |title=Samuel P. King dies at 94; longtime federal judge in Hawaii |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-dec-18-la-me-samuel-king-20101218-story.html |access-date=7 October 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=18 December 2010}}</ref>

==Essay==
{{see also|Kamehameha Schools#Reorganization}}

In 1997, King joined with other respected [[Native Hawaiians|Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian)]] senior civic leaders to publish in the ''[[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]]'' newspaper the essay "Broken Trust" on the mismanagement of the trust fund that ran the [[Kamehameha Schools]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Honolulu Star-Bulletin Editorial|url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/specials/bishop/story2.html|access-date=2020-09-28|website=archives.starbulletin.com}}</ref> Co-authors were Judge Walter Heen, Monsignor [[Charles Kekumano]], educator [[Gladys Brandt]], and [[William S. Richardson School of Law]] Professor [[Randall Roth (professor)|Randall W. Roth]]. The investigation prompted by the report resulted in the reorganization of the [[Kamehameha Schools]]. He and Roth co-authored a book expanding the essay, published in 2006.<ref>{{cite news |title= King's influence vital to 'Broken Trust' |author= Leila Fujimori |date= December 8, 2010 |newspaper= [[Honolulu Star Advertiser]] |url= http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20101208_Kings_influence_vital_to_Broken_Trust.html |access-date= December 10, 2010 }}</ref>

==Works==
* {{cite book |title= Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust |publisher= [[University of Hawaii Press]] |date= March 2006 |isbn= 978-0-8248-3014-4 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ot6ihjRRg-QC }} 336 pages, with Randall W. Roth
* {{cite news |title=Making it all pono a work in progress: Broken Trust: 10 years ago today |date= August 9, 2007 |newspaper= [[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |url= http://archives.starbulletin.com/2007/08/09/editorial/special.html |access-date= December 9, 2010 }}

==References==
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==Sources==
* {{FJC Bio|1282|nid=1383336|name=Samuel Pailthorpe King}}

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