John Perkins Junior

John Perkins Jr. (born July 1, 1819 in Natchez , Mississippi , † November 28, 1885 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American politician who represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives and the Confederate Congress .

Career

Perkins was tutored and graduated from Yale College in 1840 . He then began to study law at Harvard University Law Department, where he graduated in 1842. He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and then opened a law firm in New Orleans . He also dealt with the cultivation of cotton . He later became a district judge for the parishes of Tensas and Madison Parishes in 1851.

Perkins was elected a Democrat to the 33rd United States Congress. He worked there from March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1855. He decided not to run for re-election in 1854. He was also in 1861 chairman of Louisiana's Secession Convention . He was also a deputy in the Provisional Confederate Congress , as well as in the First and Second Confederate Congresses , where he served from 1862 to 1865. After the Confederate States lost the civil war , Perkins traveled extensively in Mexico and Europe . He returned to the United States in 1878 and spent the remainder of his life in Louisiana and Canada .

Perkins died in Baltimore on November 28, 1885. He was buried in Natchez.

Web links

• John Perkins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Perkins junior in the database of Find a Grave (English)