Samuel Wilder King (17 December 1886-24 March 1959) was a delegate to the US House of Representatives (R-HI AL) from 3 January 1935 to 3 January 1943 (succeeding Lincoln Loy McCandless and preceding Joseph Rider Farrington) and the Territorial Governor of Hawaii from 28 February 1953 to 26 July 1957 (succeeding Oren E. Long and preceding William F. Quinn).
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Samuel Wilder King was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1886, the son of James A. King; he was of partial maternal Hawaiian descent. He served in the US Navy from 1910 to 1924 before becoming a realtor in Honolulu in 1925 and serving on the Board of Supervisors of Honolulu from 1932 to 1934. From 1935 to 1943, he served as a territorial delegate to the US Congress, and he returned to the Navy during World War II. After the war, he served on the Hawaii Statehood Commission from 1947 to 1953 and was appointed governor by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953. He served until 1957, outlawing the death penalty, and he died in 1959.