Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Kemp, Samuel B.  December 26, 1871 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

SAMUEL B. KEMP, Lawyer and Jurist. As assistant United States attorney, judge 
of the Circuit Court, and associate justice of the Supreme Court, Samuel B. 
Kemp has served Hawaii with distinction during the nine years of his residence 
in Honolulu.
  Beginning the practice of his profession at Austin, Tex., in 1900, Mr. Kemp 
was judge of Coke county, Texas, from 1914 to 1916, and in that year came to 
Honolulu to become assistant United States attorney. A year later he was 
appointed judge of the Circuit Court by the late President Woodrow Wilson and 
the following year ascended the Supreme Court bench as associate justice, 
remaining in that high judicial office until 1922, when he retired to private 
practice in partnership with S. C. Huber, former United States attorney for 
Hawaii.
  In addition to his legal activities, Mr. Kemp is president and director of 
the Hawaii Lumber Co., Ltd. He is a Mason and Shriner.
  Born Dec. 26, 1871, at Austin, Tex., Mr. Kemp is the son of James B. and 
Eliza S. (Woodward) Kemp. He was educated in the public schools of Texas, the 
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, and in 1900 was granted his 
LL.B. degree by the University of Texas. In 1904 he married May S. Hope and 
they have one daughter, Dorothy Kemp, now a student at Punahou School.


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