Alvin Olin King; Leoti, KS., then Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Alvin Olin King, Lake Charles attorney and member of the State 
Senate, is a young man who has rapidly achieved distinction in his 
profession and in the public life of Southwest Louisiana.

His father is George Merritt King, one of the men who have made Lake 
Charles a great commercial and industrial center.  George Merritt King 
is secretary-treasurer of the Powell Lumber Company, of the Weber 
King Lumber Company, of the Farmer's Land & Canal Company, is 
treasurer of the Farmers Rice Milling Company and a director of the 
Calcasieu National Bank of Southwest Louisiana, all institutions at 
Lake Charles.

Senator Alvin Olin King was born at Leoti, Kansas, June 21, 1890, but 
has spent most of his life at Lake Charles.  He attended high school 
there, business college at Parsons, Kansas, and in 1915 graduated from 
the Law Department of Tulane University at New Orleans.  He was a 
Phi Kappa Sigma at Tulane.  After graduating he engaged in the 
practice of law at Lake Charles, and has busied himself chiefly with a 
general civil practice.  Since 1920 he has been city attorney, since 1922 
has held the office of city attorney of De Quincy and in January, 1924, 
was elected to the State Senate from the Fourteenth Senatorial District.  
In the Senate he served as chairman of the corporations, parochial and 
municipal committees, as member of the committee on agriculture, 
commerce and levees; committee on elections, qualifications, 
registration and constitution; committee of judiciary "B"; committee on 
railroads, insurance and industry and the rules committee.  His record 
in the Senate was one favoring economic administration of state affairs, 
together with liberal treatment of all problems involving the welfare of 
schools.  He was author of the Senate Bill No. 162, known as the King 
bill, providing for necessary legislation for building a great deep water 
harbor at Lake Charles, establishing a system of wharves and docks, for 
construction of terminals, appointment of a dock commission, and the 
financing of the entire project,

Senator King is a member of the Lake Charles Country Club, and a 
trustee of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.  In Masonry, he 
belongs to the Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Knights Templar 
Commandery in the York Rites and has taken the thirty-second degree 
in the Scottish Rite Consistory, is a member of the El Karubah Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine at Shreveport, and also belongs to the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.  Senator King 
married Miss Willie Lee Voris of New Orleans.  Their two children are 
Voris and Alvin Olin, Jr.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 268, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New 
York, 1925.