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King, Austin Augustus

lawyer,, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Sept. 20, 1801, in Sullivan county, Tenn.

He removed to Missouri in 1830; in 1834 was elected to the Missouri legislature; was re-elected to the same position in 1836; and in 1837 was appointed a circuit judge for Ray county, which position he held until 1848, when he was elected governor of Missouri, the term of that office expiring in 1853. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-eighth congress. He died April 22, 1870, in St. Louis, Mo.