John Edward King (1821 – December 6, 1881) was a justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court for one day, January 9, 1877.
King was a member of Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1852, Speaker of the
Louisiana House of Representatives in 1852, and a state district judge in
Opelousas, Louisiana :''Opelousas is also a common name of the flathead catfish.''
Opelousas (french: Les Opélousas; Spanish: ''Los Opeluzás'') is a small city and the parish seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. Interstate 49 and U.S. Route 190 ...
, in 1870.
He was appointed to the state supreme court by Governor
Stephen B. Packard to succeed Judge
William Gillespie Wyly; the court was turned out of office by the Democrats on the same day that it convened.
[''Celebration of the Centenary of the Supreme Court of Louisiana'' (March 1, 1913), in John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart, eds., ''The Louisiana Historical Quarterly'' (1922), p. 121.] The seat was later filled by Governor
Francis T. Nicholls
Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls (August 20, 1834January 4, 1912) was an American attorney, politician, judge, and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He served two terms as the 28th Governor of L ...
, who appointed
William B. Giles Egan.
["Death of Judge Egan", ''Bossier Banner-Progress'' (December 5, 1878), p. 2.]
King died in Opelousas.
References
Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court
1821 births
1881 deaths
Speakers of the Louisiana House of Representatives
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