Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Robertson, Alexander G. M. September 3, 1867 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

ALEXANDER G. M. ROBERTSON, Jurist and Lawyer. A. G. M. Robertson, son of the 
late Judge George Morison Robertson and a former chief justice of the Supreme 
Court of Hawaii, was born in Honolulu, Sept. 3, 1867. He was educated in the 
schools of Honolulu and Oakland, Calif., and at Yale, where he received his 
LL.B. degree, cum laude, in 1893. He married Ululani McQuaid of Honolulu, May 
29, 1907.
  Admitted to the bar, Supreme Court of Hawaii, July 14, 1893; Supreme Court 
of the United States, Feb. 20, 1899, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 
Ninth Circuit, Oct. 31, 1899, Judge Robertson was appointed United States 
district judge, Jan. 25, 1910, and was appointed chief justice of the Supreme 
Court of the Territory, March 7, 1911, and reappointed, April 4, 1916, later 
resigning from the post to practise law with the firm of Robertson, Castle & 
Olson, which later became Robertson & Castle.
  Judge Robertson was a delegate to the Hawaiian Constitutional Convention, 
1894, a member of Governor Dole’s staff with rank of captain and judge 
advocate on the Hawaiian Military Commission for the trial of state prisoners, 
1895; deputy attorney general, Republic of Hawaii, 1895; member of the House 
of Representatives, 1896 and 1898, and a member of the House of 
Representatives for the Territory in 1901.
  In 1904 and 1908 Judge Robertson was a delegate to the Republican national 
conventions and a member of the Republican National Committee from 1904 to 
1910. He was president of the Bar Association of Hawaii, 1904-1905. He is an 
Elk and a member of the Pacific, Commercial and Oahu Country Clubs.


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