Alvin Olin King

Alvin Olin King

Infobox Officeholder
name = Alvin Olin King


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order = 41st Governor of Louisiana
term_start = January 25
term_end = May 10, 1932
lieutenant = "None"
predecessor = Huey P. Long
successor = Oscar K. Allen
order2 = 32nd Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
term_start2 = 1931
term_end2 = 1932
governor2 = Huey P. Long
predecessor2 = Paul N. Cyr
successor2 = John B. Fournet
birth_date = June 21, 1890
birth_place = Leoti, Kansas
death_date = January 21, 1958 (aged 67)
death_place = Lake Charles, Louisiana
constituency =
party = Democratic
spouse =
children =
profession = Lawyer
education =
religion = Methodist


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Alvin Olin King (June 21, 1890ndash January 21, 1958) was a Louisiana politician allied with the popular Long faction of the state Democratic Party.

King was born in Leoti in Wichita County in western Kansasndash not to be confused with Wichita, Kansas. He attended Tulane University Law School in New Orleans and began the practice of law. King was elected to the Louisiana State Senate from Calcasieu Parish in the southwestern part of the state and rose to president pro tempore of that body. When Huey Pierce Long, Jr., vacated the governorship for a seat in the United States Senate, King replaced him as governor for the five months remaining in Long's elected term.

During his brief tenure, he called for a reduction in highway spending, since the Great Depression made it difficult to finance bonds at an acceptable rate. This was also during the time of construction of the Huey P. Long Bridge in Jefferson Parish. Signs above the roadway entrance to the bridge proclaim that it was built during the administrations of Huey Long and Oscar K. Allen; no mention is made of King's tenure.

King had succeeded Paul N. Cyr of Jeanerette as lieutenant governor after Cyr attempted in 1931 to take the oath of office as governor when Long did not leave for Washington, D.C., to assume the U.S. Senate seat to which Long had been elected in 1930.

After leaving office, King reverted to his legal profession.

Before his death in Lake Charles, King had become president of the Louisiana Bar Association. he was a Methodist.

References

[http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/tabid/398/Default.aspx State of Louisiana - Biography]

External links

* [http://www.la-cemeteries.com/Governors/King,%20Alvin%20Olin/King,%20Alvin%20Olin.shtml Cemetery Memorial] by La-Cemeteries


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