
John King Luttrell (27 June 1831-4 October 1893) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 3) from 4 March 1873 to 3 March 1879 (succeeding John M. Coghlan and preceding Campbell Polson Berry).
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John King Luttrell was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1831, and he and his family moved to Alabama in 1844 and to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1845. In 1852, Luttrell moved to California and engaged in mining, settling in Folsom, Sacramento County in 1853 before moving to El Dorado County in 1854, to Watsonville in Santa Cruz County, and then to Oakland in 1856, becoming a lawyer. He served as a justice of the peace in 1856 and 1857 before serving in the State Assembly in 1865 and from 1871 to 1872, in the US House of Representatives from 1873 to 1879, on the state board of prison directors from 1887 to 1889, and as a treasury agent in Sitka, Alaska until his death there in 1893.