Edward John King (July 1, 1867 – February 17, 1929) was a

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from

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. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, King moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled in Galesburg, Knox County, in 1880. He attended the public schools, and Knox College at

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. He studied law. He was

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in 1893 and commenced practice in

. He was city attorney in 1893 and 1894. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1907-1914. King was elected as a

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to the Sixty-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death. On April 5, 1917, he, with 49 other Representatives, voted against declaring war on Germany. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture ( Sixty-seventh through Sixty-ninth Congresses). He had been reelected to the Seventy-first Congress, but died in office in

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, February 17, 1929. He was interred in Hope Abbey Mausoleum, Hope Cemetery,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:King, Edward John 1867 births 1929 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois Republican Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives

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