John Charles Floyd was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Arkansas

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Born in Sparta, Tennessee

Sparta, Tennessee

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, Floyd moved to Benton County, Arkansas

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, in 1869 with his parents, who settled near Bentonville.
He attended the common and high schools, and was graduated from the Arkansas Industrial University (later the University of Arkansas

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) at Fayetteville in 1879.
He taught school at Springdale, Arkansas

Springdale, Arkansas

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, in 1880 and 1881.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1882 and commenced practice in Yellville, Arkansas

Yellville, Arkansas

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He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives

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 1889-1891.
He served as prosecuting attorney of the fourteenth judicial circuit 1890-1894.

Floyd was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Fifty-ninth

59th United States Congress

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 and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1915).
He was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1912 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Robert Wodrow Archbald, judge of the United States Commerce Court

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He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914.
He resumed the practice of law in Yellville, Arkansas

Yellville, Arkansas

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He was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination as Governor of Arkansas in 1920.
He died in Yellville, Arkansas

Yellville, Arkansas

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, November 4, 1930.
He was interred in Layton Cemetery.