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Austin Augustus King

Austin Augustus King (21 September 1802-22 April 1870) was Governor of Missouri from 20 November 1848 to 3 January 1853 (succeeding John Cummins Edwards and preceding Sterling Price) and a member of the US House of Representatives (U-MO 6) from 4 March 1863 to 3 March 1865 (succeeding John S. Phelps and preceding Robert T. Van Horn).

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Austin Augustus King was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee in 1802, the maternal grandson of John Sevier. He became a lawyer in Jackson in 1822 and moved to Columbia, Missouri in 1830, and he served as a militia colonel during the Black Hawk War. He went on to serve in the State House from 1834 to 1837, a circuit court judge from 1837 to 1848, Governor from 1848 to 1853, a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention, and a member of the US House of Representatives from 1863 to 1865. From 1862 to 1865, he was a Unionist. He died in 1870.

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