John Floyd King (April 20, 1842 – May 8, 1915) was a

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from

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Biography

King was born on

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, off the coast of Georgia on April 20, 1842, to Georgia Congressman Thomas Butler King. He was the nephew of Pennsylvania Congressman Henry King. King attended the Russell School,

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, Bartlett's College Hill School,

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, the Military Institute of Georgia, and the

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. Enlisted in the

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and served in the Army of Virginia throughout the

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, attaining the rank of colonel of Artillery. He moved to Louisiana and engaged in planting. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced practice in

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. He was appointed brigadier general of State troops. King was 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. King was elected as a

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to the Forty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1887). He served as chairman of the Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886. He engaged in mining operations, with residence in

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Assistant Register of the United States Treasury from May 19, 1914, until his death in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 1915. He is interred in Arlington National Cemetery.

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