John Perkins, Jr.

John Perkins Jr. ( born July 1, 1819 in Natchez, Mississippi, † November 28, 1885 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American politician who represented the state of Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the Konföderiertenkongress.

Career

Perkins was taught by private tutors and graduated in 1840 at Yale College. Then he began to study law at Harvard University Law Department, where he made his degree in 1842. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1843 and then opened a law firm in New Orleans. He also engaged in the cultivation of cotton. Later he became a district judge in 1851 the municipalities Tensas and Madison Parishes.

Perkins was elected as a Democrat in the 33rd Congress of the United States. There he worked on 4 March 1853 to 3 March 1855. He decided in 1854 not to stand again for re-election. He was also the 1861 chairman of Louisiana's secession convention. He was also a deputy in the provisional Konföderiertenkongress, and first and second Konföderiertenkongress, where he worked from 1862 to 1865. After the Confederate States had lost the Civil War, Perkins traveled extensively in Mexico and Europe. In 1878 he returned to the United States and spent the remaining years of his life in Louisiana and Canada.

Perkins died on November 28, 1885 in Baltimore. He was buried in Natchez.