John Ker (planter), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American planter
Date of Birth: 27-Jun-1789
Date of Death: 04-Jan-1850
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About John Ker (planter)
- John Ker (1789–1850) was an American surgeon, planter and politician in Louisiana.
- Together with several major Mississippi planters, in the 1830s Ker co-founded the Mississippi Colonization Society, promoting removal of free American blacks to a colony in West Africa (later Liberia).
- The state group modeled itself after the American Colonization Society, where Ker later served as a vice president. Born in North Carolina, where his father was the first president of the new state university, Ker moved with his family as a youth to Mississippi after 1817, when his father was appointed to the state supreme court.
- He went to medical school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and returned to the South.
- Serving as a surgeon in the War of 1812 and Creek War, Ker later owned a cotton plantation in Louisiana and served in the state house.
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