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3 unusual facts about Gerrit P. Judd


Asher B. Bates

Bates was brother-in-law of Gerrit P. Judd, a former American missionary doctor who was then a power cabinet minister.

Francis Judd Cooke

He was the great grandson of Gerrit P. Judd, the first doctor to reside in Hawaii, and grandson of Albert Francis Judd, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

George R. Carter

His mother was Sybil Augusta Judd (1843–1906), daughter of Gerrit P. Judd, and his father was businessman Henry Alpheus Peirce Carter.


Adam Dread

Another parody, "Did I Shave My Back for This?" was the title track of a popular Cledus T. Judd country comedy album.

Bigger Than the Beatles

This song was parodied by country music parodist Cledus T. Judd on his album I Stoled This Record as "(She's Got a Butt) Bigger Than the Beatles".

Elisha Hunt Allen

Within weeks he was appointed Minister of Finance for King Kamehameha III replacing Gerrit P. Judd, and from 1854 to 1856 served in the House of Nobles.

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

Cledus T. Judd in 1996 released a parody called "Grandpa Got Ran Over by a John Deere" as a sequel to "Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer" and as well did a cover of the song in 2002.

Kenneth N. Robinson

When McMurray resigned in 2005, Robinson and fellow counselor Peter A. Judd led the church until Stephen M. Veazey was selected as the new president.

Lawrence M. Judd

A source of controversy during his tenure, Judd commuted the sentence of Grace Hubbard Fortescue, socialite and niece of Alexander Graham Bell, convicted in the territorial courts of manslaughter in the death of a local man, Joseph Kahahawai.

Judd's service running Kalaupapa was a subject in the 2003 historical novel and national bestseller called Moloka'i by Alan Brennert as well as the historical account, The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman.

Judd was born March 20, 1887 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the grandson of Gerrit P. Judd, who was an early American Missionary, a cabinet minister to King Kamehameha III, and co-founder of Punahou School.

Me Neither

Cledus T. Judd parodied the song on his 2000 album Just Another Day in Parodies, under the title "More Beaver" (a reference to the TV series Leave It to Beaver).


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