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JOHN KING LUTTRELL
(photos from Brady-Handy Collection, Lib. of Congress)
U. S. Congressman
representing California
Mar 4, 1873 - Mar 3, 1879
died Oct. 4, 1893, Sitka, Alaska
LUTTRELL, JOHN KING
a Representative from California;
born near Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., June 27, 1831; attended the common schools;
moved with his parents to a farm in Alabama in 1844;
moved to Missouri in 1845 with his parents, who settled on a farm near St. Joseph;
moved to California in 1852 and engaged in mining; settled in Yolo County and engaged in agricultural pursuits;
moved to Prairie City (later Folsom) in 1853, to El Dorado County in 1854 and thence to Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, and to Alameda County;
studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Oakland in 1856;
justice of the peace in Brooklyn (now a part of Oakland) in 1856 and 1857;
moved to Siskiyou County in 1858 and purchased a ranch near Fort Jones;
engaged in agricultural pursuits, mining, and the practice of law;
sergeant at arms of the State assembly in 1865 and 1866; member of the State house of representatives in 1871 and 1872;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1879);
declined to be a candidate for reelection; resumed the practice of law, farming, and mining;
member of the board of State prison directors, 1887-1889;
appointed United States Commissioner of Fisheries and special agent of the United States Treasury for Alaska in 1893;
died in Sitka, Alaska, on October 4, 1893; interment in Fort Jones Cemetery, Fort Jones, Siskiyou County, Calif.
https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=L000522
See also:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7111238/john-king-luttrell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Luttrell
John King Luttrell on Wikipedia
