Member of North Carolina House of Commons, 1788, 1789; representing Hawkins County (then North Carolina, now Tennessee). No information located on date and place of birth, names of parents, extent of schooling, name of wife and children, if any. All that is known of Representative King is that he was a surveyor, that he lived in Hawkins County at the time of his legislative service, was a colonel in militia, and that he died, exact place and date unknown, in 1805.

Source: Williams, Lost State of Franklin, 217, 245, 248.

From Biographical Directory: Tennessee General Assembly, 1796-1967, Issue 3