John Edward King (Louisiana judge)
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John Edward King (1821 – December 6, 1881) was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court for one day, January 9, 1877.[1][2]
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, in 1870.[1] 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.[3] The seat was later filled by Governor Francis T. Nicholls, who appointed William B. Giles Egan.[4]
King died in Opelousas.[1]