[1][2] Born in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana,[3] his father was state court judge George King.
[1] King graduated from the University of Virginia,[1][3] and served successively in Louisiana State Legislature from 1820 to 1821,[1][3] then as a district attorney,[3] then as a district judge of the Louisiana Fifth Judicial District Court from 1841 to 1846,[1] and finally as an associate justice of the state supreme court.
[3] He was again elected to the state legislature in 1850,[1] and also established a law practice in Opelousas, in his native parish.
[1] King died in Opelousas in his early 60s.
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