{"id":40599,"date":"2015-11-17T08:13:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T18:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=40599"},"modified":"2021-06-21T07:13:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:13:26","slug":"judge-sam-kings-papers-memorabilia-on-display-at-uh-law-library-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/11\/17\/judge-sam-kings-papers-memorabilia-on-display-at-uh-law-library-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Sam King\u2019s papers, memorabilia on display at UH<\/abbr> law library"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Sam King, second from left, during his years in the U.S. Navy during World War II<\/abbr>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A historical archive covering items and papers from the life of the Honorable Samuel P. King, once a Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> gubernatorial candidate and a legendary state and federal judge, will be on display in the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> Library through December 14 during regular daily library hours.<\/p>\n

The new archive is one of two involving federal judges now housed at the UH<\/abbr> Law Library. The other archive includes collected papers of the Honorable Myron H. Bright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.<\/p>\n

A leading citizen of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/h2>\n

King’s life alone spanned Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s pre-statehood and early statehood years through 2010, the year of his death. The archive reflects a leading citizen of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> with a multitude of interests, and includes such things as photos of him as a young World War ll Navy officer, copies of notebooks in which he recorded the 2,200 marriages he performed as a judge, and elaborate diagrams for “Go” strategies. King was an expert at the game and translated the seminal book on the subject from Japanese to English.<\/p>\n

“Sam was born in China when his father was stationed on a U.S. gunboat on the Yangtze River,” says Library Director and Associate Professor Victoria Szymczak<\/strong>. “There are even some pictures of him as a baby in China, and one very old photo of his grandmother.”<\/p>\n

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Memorabilia from Sam King’s run for governor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The archive begins in 1933 when King won an oratory award in his senior year at Punahou that included a free “reporting” trip to Europe. It extends through his involvement in politics, his role as a pioneering state family court judge and his long history as a federal judge. He was involved as a judge in some of the thorniest issues of the time, including H-3 litigation, a mysterious Palmyra murder case, and even the legal maintenance of the habitat of an endangered native honey-creeper.<\/p>\n

The King items on display are just a tiny portion of the thousands of items and documents donated by King’s widow, Anne, and her family, to the UH<\/abbr> law library.<\/p>\n

“Because of the very close legal community, personal archives have a special place in people’s hearts and are viable research collections as well as historical collections,” Szymczak said.<\/p>\n

Said Law Dean Avi Soifer<\/strong>, “Many of us greatly admired Judge King and it has been a treat to get to know the King family better as we arranged for this wonderfully generous gift to the law school.”<\/p>\n

Law Professor Randall Roth<\/strong>, an authority on trust law and a close friend of the King family, was instrumental in having the King collection reside at the library. Both Roth and King were involved in developing a document known as “Broken Trust” that helped bring to light some of the questionable operations of the former Bishop Estate in the late 1990s. Its publication played a key role in a change of trustees and a renewal of the mission of what is now known simply as Kamehameha Schools.<\/p>\n

The William S. Richardson School of Law Library is a natural repository for the personal and professional papers of significant Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> legal and political figures, notes Law Library Director and Associate Professor Victoria Szymczak<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Library hours<\/h2>\n

Fall hours for the UH<\/abbr> Law Library are Sundays to Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m, and Fridays and Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The library is closed on state holidays.<\/p>\n

—By Beverly Creamer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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