[1] He entered private practice in Atlanta, Georgia from 1875 to 1918,[1] serving as general legal counsel to various railroad companies.

[2] For the Atlanta & West Point Railroad he took the position of assistant general counsel from 1887 to 1893, simultaneously serving as general counsel for the East & West Railroad of Alabama from 1887 to 1889, and again as assistant general counsel to the Richmond and Danville Railroad and Richmond & West Point Terminal Co., from 1890 to 1892.

[2] King was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson on April 29, 1920, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated by Judge Don Albert Pardee.

[1] He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 24, 1920, and received his commission the same day.

[2][3] He died on July 25, 1926,[Death 1] in Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina.