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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "John Edward King". Louisiana Supreme Court. Archived from the original on 2019-06-09. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Louisiana Supreme Court Justices, 1813-Present". Louisiana Supreme Court. Archived from the original on 2019-06-08. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "Death of Judge Egan", Bossier Banner-Progress (December 5, 1878), p. 2.


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