John K. Luttrell

John King Luttrell (* June 27, 1831 at Knoxville, Tennessee, † October 4, 1893 in Sitka, Alaska ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1879 he represented the State of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Luttrell attended the public schools of his home. In 1844 he moved with his parents first to Alabama and a year later to Missouri. During the Gold Rush, he came to California in 1852, where he worked in Yolo County in mining and agriculture. After several moves, he finally arrived in 1856 to Oakland. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in 1856 to work in Oakland in this profession. In the years 1856 and 1857 he was also justice of the peace in his new home. In 1858 he moved into the Siskiyou County, where he acquired a ranch near Fort Jones. In the following years he worked in agriculture, mining, and as a lawyer.

At the same Luttrell began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1865 and 1866 he served in the California State Assembly, the honorary position of " Sergeant At Arms ." Later he was a 1871-1872 self- deputy in the Parliament chamber. In the congressional elections of 1872 he was in the third electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John M. Coghlan on March 4, 1873. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 three legislative periods. In 1878 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Luttrell resumed his previous activities on again. Between 1887 and 1889 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of the State prisons ( Board of State Prison Directors ). In 1893 he was appointed Federal Commissioner for Fisheries and the special agents of the Treasury Department in Alaska. He died in the same year, on October 4, 1893 in Sitka and was buried in Fort Jones.