John Floyd King Colonel, Confederate States of America Army Member of Congress |
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| KING,
John Floyd, (son of Thomas Butler King and nephew of Henry King), a Representative
from Louisiana; born on St. Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia, April
20, 1842; attended the Russell School, New Haven, Conn., Bartlett’s
College Hill School, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the Military Institute of Georgia,
and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; enlisted in the Confederate
Army and served in the Army of Virginia throughout the Civil War, attaining
the rank of colonel of Artillery; moved to Louisiana and engaged in planting;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced practice in
Vidalia, La.; appointed brigadier general of State troops; elected inspector
of levees and president of the board of school directors of his district
and also a trustee of the University of the South; elected as a Democrat
to the Forty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March
3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi
River (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1886; engaged in mining operations, with residence
in Washington, D.C.; Assistant Register of the United States Treasury from
May 19, 1914, until his dKING, John Floyd, (son of Thomas Butler King and
nephew of Henry King), a Representative from Louisiana; born on St. Simons
Island, off the coast of Georgia, April 20, 1842; attended the Russell
School, New Haven, Conn., Bartlett’s College Hill School, Poughkeepsie,
N.Y., the Military Institute of Georgia, and the University of Virginia
at Charlottesville; enlisted in the Confederate Army and served in the
Army of Virginia throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of colonel
of Artillery; moved to Louisiana and engaged in planting; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced practice in Vidalia, La.;
appointed brigadier general of State troops; elected inspector of levees
and president of the board of school directors of his district and also
a trustee of the University of the South; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March
3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi
River (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1886; engaged in mining operations, with residence
in Washington, D.C.; Assistant Register of the United States Treasury from
May 19, 1914, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 8, 1915; interment
in Arlington National Cemetery.
KING, J FLOYD
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