Alexander Lindsay Jr. (October 29, 1871 – September 5, 1926)"Judge Alexander Lindsay Dies", ''The Honolulu Advertiser'' (September 6, 1926), p. 1-2. was a justice of the Territorial

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from October 10, 1922 until his death on September 5, 1926. Born in

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, Lindsay's family arrived in

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to settle in

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on his tenth birthday. Lindsay attended the public schools of Kauai until 1887, when he moved to Honolulu, where he worked as an interpreter in a law office. Lindsay was a storekeeper from 1889 to 1899, when he moved to Michigan to further his education. He received an

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from the

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in 1902, and in 1903 Hawaii Governor Sanford B. Dole appointed Lindsay to the office of district magistrate of Honolulu. In 1905, President

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appointed Lindsay to a seat on the first judicial circuit of Honolulu, to which Lindsay was reappointed in 1909. He resigned to enter private practice, but in 1910 was appointed

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, remaining in that office until 1913. In 1922, he was appointed by Governor Walter F. Frear to the Territorial Supreme Court of Hawaii, for a term set to expire later in 1926, but he died suddenly while travelling in

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, Australia. Lindsay married Fanny Louise Young of

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, in 1906. They had a son and a daughter.

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Justices of the Supreme Court of Hawaii 1871 births 1926 deaths People from Fife University of Michigan Law School alumni Hawaii attorneys general British emigrants to the Hawaiian Kingdom {{Hawaii-state-judge-stub