John King Griffin | |
State: | South Carolina |
District: | 9th |
Term Start: | March 4, 1831 |
Term End: | March 3, 1841 |
Predecessor: | Starling Tucker |
Successor: | Patrick C. Caldwell |
Office2: | Member of the South Carolina Senate |
Term3: | 1820 - 1824 |
Term2: | 1828 |
Office4: | Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives |
Term4: | 1816 - 1819 |
Birth Date: | 13 August 1789 |
Birth Place: | Clinton, South Carolina |
Death Place: | Clinton, South Carolina |
Profession: | planter |
Party: | Democratic (after 1839) |
Otherparty: | Nullifier Party (before 1839) |
John King Griffin (August 13, 1789 – August 1, 1841) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Born near Clinton, South Carolina, Griffin pursued an academic course.He engaged as a planter.He served in the State house of representatives 1816–1819.He served as member of the State senate 1820–1824 and again in 1828.
Griffin was elected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-second through Twenty-fifth Congresses and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1841).He died near Clinton, South Carolina, August 1, 1841.He was interred in Little River Church Cemetery.