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Dr. Alfred Clinton King - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Madison Journal September 1, 1933

Dr. Alfred Clinton King

After an illness of several months, Dr. Alfred Clinton King, a member of the Faculty of the Graduate 
School of Medicine, died on April 1, 1933, at his home at 2020 Farragut Street, Algiers, La.

Dr. King was born at Mound, La., Madison parish, on December 17, 1868. He was the son of the late 
W. B. King, Louisiana planter, and Mrs. Julia Frazier King, and received his education at a private 
school in Baton Rouge. In 1891 he matriculated in the Tulane Medical School and was graduated in 1895. 
Through his college years and while serving as an intern at Touro Infirmary and at Charity Hospital he 
established himself as being dependable, and whatever he undertook was well done, which reputation he 
enjoyed throughout his life.

Following an internship in Charity Hospital and several years of practice in Algiers, Dr. King was 
appointed on the surgical staff of Charity Hospital in 1912, and the same year received an appointment on 
the faculty of the Graduate School of Medicine of The Tulane University of Louisiana, with the rank 
of Clinical Assistant in General Surgery; in 1921 he was appointed senior visiting surgeon on the 
Charity Hospital staff, and at the time of his death was Professor of Surgery and Head of the Department 
of Surgery of the Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. King also served on the visiting staff of Hotel Dieu. 
Immediately following the death of Dr. Henry Daspit, Dean of the Graduate School of Medicine, Dr. King was 
appointed acting Dean, but due to ill health was unable to serve in this capacity.

Dr. King was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Medical Association, 
Southern Medical Association, Louisiana State Medical Society and the Orleans Parish Medical Society.

In the untimely death of Dr. King the community lost a staunch citizen and the profession an excellent 
surgeon.-The Tulane News bulletin.