J. Floyd King

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J. Floyd King

John Floyd King (born April 20, 1842 on St. Simons Island , Georgia , †  May 8, 1915 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1887 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Life

J. Floyd King was the son of Thomas Butler King (1800–1864), who had twice represented the State of Georgia in the US House of Representatives between 1839 and 1851. He was also a nephew of Henry King (1790–1861), who sat in Congress for Pennsylvania between 1831 and 1835 . He attended the Russell School in New Haven ( Connecticut ) that Bartlett's College Hill School in the state of New York and the Military Institute of Georgia . He also studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville .

During the civil war , he made it to the rank of lieutenant colonel in an artillery unit in the Confederate Army . After the war, he moved to Louisiana, where he worked as a planter . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1872, he began to work in this profession in Vidalia . He also became Brigadier General in the Louisiana National Guard and Levee Inspector. He was also the chairman of the school board in his home district and served on the board of trustees of the University of the South .

Politically, King was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1878 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fifth constituency of Louisiana, where he succeeded J. Smith Young on March 4, 1879 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1887 . From 1883 to 1887 he was chairman of the committee for the expansion of the levees and the regulation of the Mississippi . In 1886 King was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. He stayed in the federal capital Washington and got into the mining business. From 1914 until his death on May 8, 1915, King worked for the Federal Treasury. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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SURNAME King, J. Floyd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, John Floyd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Simons Island , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1915
Place of death Washington, DC