Judson King was a lecturer, writer, and political consultant. He was director of the National Popular Government League during the period 1933-58.

Biography

King was born on April 19, 1872 in Waterford, Pennsylvania

Waterford, Pennsylvania

Waterford is a borough in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,449 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Erie Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Waterford is located at ....

. From 1889 to 1893 he attended Battle Creek College, and then attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, graduating in 1896. In 1902 he founded and edited the Morning Sun in Denison, Texas

Denison, Texas

Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, United States. The population was 22,773 at the 2000 census; it is estimated to have grown to 24,127 in 2009. Denison is one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

, while in 1905-06 he was editor of the "Independent Voter" in Toledo, Ohio. In 1912 he married the suffragist, Dr. Cora Smith Eaton.

Having functioned during 1908-10 as Field Secretary of the Ohio Direct Legislation League, King served between 1933 and 1958 as Director of the National Popular Government League. Between 1935 to 1944, he worked concurrently as a special consultant to the Rural Electrification Administration. In 1926 he married Bertha Hale White

Bertha Hale White

Bertha Hale White, was a teacher and journalist, and a prominent functionary of the Socialist Party of America. After serving for more than a decade in the party's National Office, in February 1924 White was named Executive Secretary of the SPA, becoming the first woman to hold that position. She...

, the former Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America

Socialist Party of America

The Socialist Party of America was a multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization...

. He died on July 4, 1958 in Washington, DC.