Governor of Hawaii Governor of American Samoa
Judd was born March 20, 1887 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the grandson of Gerrit P. Judd, who was an early American Missionary, a cabinet minister to King Kamehameha III, and co-founder of Punahou School. His father was Judge Albert Francis Judd (1838–1900) and mother was Agnes Hall Boyd (1844–1934).
Judd attended the Punahou School, The Hotchkiss School, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of its fraternity chapter of Phi Kappa Psi.
He was devoted to the Hansen"s Disease-afflicted residents of Kalaupapa on the island of Molokaʻi. He was the last of nine children. Judd made several fact-finding tours during his tenure in the Hawaii Territorial Senate 1920–1927.
Governor of Hawai"i
Herbert Hoover appointed Judd to succeed Wallace Rider Farrington as Governor of Hawaii Territory from 1929 to 1934.As territorial governor, he overhauled the system of governance in the colony.
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 ʻIolani Palace.
The affair was the subject of a 2005 episode of the Public Broadcasting Service series The American Experience, with some archival footage of Judd. Resident superintendent
Judd became Kalaupapa"s resident superintendent in 1947.
Judd"s service running Kalaupapa was a subject in the 2003 historical novel and national bestseller called Moloka"i by Alan Brennert as well as the historical account, The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman.
Samoa and retirement
He served only five months. Judd died on October 4, 1968 in Honolulu and was interred in the city"s Oahu Cemetery in Nuʻuanu Valley.
