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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 11/1/1894
Party Affiliation: Whig
Assemblies Served:
House: 1 (1846)
Home County: Keokuk
Nelson King
Keokuk County
Nelson King was born about 1817 in Indiana. He married Minervia Snow in May 1837 in Indiana. He married Patience Mills in December 1853 in Keokuk, Iowa. He had nine children. He was elected in 1846 to the First General Assembly running as a Whig from Keokuk County. During his service in the legislature he was involved in a bribery scandal surrounding the election of an Iowa senator. He was a Methodist minister, farmer, and an attorney. By 1860 the King family had moved to Douglas County, Oregon. King died in November 1894 in Oregon.
Sources:
House District 12
Committees
1st GA (1846)
Standing Committees
Legislation Sponsored
1st GA (1846)