{{Short description|American politician (1819–1885)}} {{more citations needed|date=April 2017}} {{Use American English|date=March 2017}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = John Perkins Jr. | state = [[Louisiana]] | district = [[Louisiana's 3rd congressional district|3rd]] | term_start = March 4, 1853 | term_end = March 3, 1855 | preceded = [[Alexander Gordon Penn|Alexander G. Penn]] | succeeded = [[Thomas Green Davidson|Thomas G. Davidson]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1819|07|01}} | birth_place = [[Adams County, Mississippi]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1885|11|28|1819|07|01}} | death_place = [[Baltimore, Maryland]] | resting_place = Natchez City Cemetery,<br />[[Natchez, Mississippi]] | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | spouse = Evelyn Perkins | parents = {{unbulleted list|[[John Perkins Sr.]]|Mary Perkins}} | education = {{unbulleted list|[[Yale University|Yale College]]|[[Harvard University]]}} | occupation = [[Politician]], [[Plantations in the American South|planter]], [[lawyer]] }} '''John Perkins Jr.''' (July 1, 1819 &ndash; November 28, 1885) was an American [[politician]] who served as a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Louisiana]].

==Biography== Perkins was born on July 1, 1819, in [[Adams County, Mississippi]], to [[John Perkins Sr.|John]] and Mary ([[née]] Rives) Perkins. He received his early education from private tutors. He graduated from [[Yale University|Yale College]] in 1840 and was initiated, his senior year, into the [[Skull and Bones]] Society.<ref name="skeleton">{{cite book | title=Fleshing Out Skull and Bones: Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society | publisher=Trine Day | author=Millegan, Kris | year=2003 | location=Walterville, OR | pages=597–690 | isbn=0-9720207-2-1 | chapter=The Skeleton Crew}} "This list is compiled from material from the Order of Skull and Bones membership books at [[Sterling Library]], Yale University and other public records. The latest books available are the 1971 ''Living members'' and the 1973 ''Deceased Members'' books. The last year the members were published in the ''[[Yale Banner]]'' is 1969."</ref> He then graduated from the law department of [[Harvard University]] in 1842. He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in [[New Orleans]]. He also engaged in [[plantation|cotton planting]]. He was appointed judge of the circuit court for the district comprising Tensas and Madison Parishes in 1851. He was elected as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to the [[Thirty-third United States Congress|Thirty-third Congress]] (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1854. He served as chairman of the [[ordinance of secession|state secession convention]] in 1861. He served in the [[Congress of the Confederate States|Confederate States Congress]] from 1862 to 1865. Following the [[American Civil War]], he traveled extensively in [[Mexico]] and [[Europe]]. He returned to the United States in 1878 and spent the remaining years of his life in Louisiana and [[Canada]]. On November 28, 1885, he died in [[Baltimore, Maryland]], and was interred in the Natchez City Cemetery.

==See also== *[[List of United States representatives from Louisiana]]

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==External links== <!--Please: 1)Follow the [[WP:EL]] guideline where possible and consider discussing on the talk page; 2)Do not turn these bullets into headers! They expand the TOC too much--> * {{Find a Grave|7900204}} * [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#017.89.01 John Perkins Jr.] at [[The Political Graveyard]] * [http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00924/ John Perkins Papers] at [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] * [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lamadiso/perkins/perkins.htm The John Perkins Family of Northeast Louisiana] at [[Ancestry.com|RootsWeb.com]] * {{CongBio|P000236}}

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