Lawrence McCully Judd (20 March 1887-4 October 1968) was the Republican Territorial Governor of Hawaii from 6 July 1929 to 2 March 1934 (succeeding Wallace R. Farrington and preceding Joseph Poindexter) and Governor of American Samoa from 4 March to 4 August 1953 (succeeding James Arthur Ewing and preceding Richard Barrett Lowe).
Biography[]
Lawrence McCully Judd was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1887, the grandson of Gerrit P. Judd. He served in the territorial senate from 1920 to 1927 and was appointed territorial governor in 1929. He notably commuted the sentence of socialite Grace Hubbard Fortescue, who had arranged the murder of Hawaiian prize fighter Joseph Kahahawai after an inconclusive rape case. He became resident superintendent of Kalaupapa in 1947 and served as the temporary governor of American Samoa for five months in 1953 before dying in Honolulu in 1968.