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Killis B. Bonner

Florida politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ109930118 ↗
Source-derived summary

Killis B. Bonner (c. 1847 - ?) was an American farmer and state legislator in Florida. He represented Marion County, Florida in the Florida House of Representatives in 1877.

He was born in North Carolina.

He was elected in 1876. Some House documents use his initials and identify him as K. B. Bonner. He lost the 1878 election for a Florida House seat to Robert Bullock.

In 1881 he gave sworn testimony that Moses Foster Jr. was his brother-in-law and had been prohibited from voting. The testimony was for Horatio Bisbee Jr.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Killis B. Bonner” as florida politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1847, 1877, 1876, 1878—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1847-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Killis, Bonner and Florida can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as florida politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109930118. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1847, 1877, 1876 and 1878.

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This entry incorporates text from “Killis B. Bonner” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.