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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsKING, Daniel Putnam
(1801—1850)
KING, Daniel Putnam, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Danvers, Mass., January 8, 1801; pursued classical studies and was graduated from Harvard University in 1823; studied law, but did not practice; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives in 1836 and 1837; served in the State senate 1838-1841, and was its president in 1840; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1843 and 1844 and served as speaker in the latter year; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1843, until his death in South Danvers, Mass., July 25, 1850; chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Twenty-eighth Congress), Committee on Accounts (Twenty-ninth through Thirty-first Congresses), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirtieth Congress); interment in King Cemetery, Peabody, Mass.
Appleton, Frank Parker. Two discourses, occasioned by the decease of the Hon. Daniel P. King
. Boston: Printed by G.R. Carlton, [1850].
King, Daniel Putnam. An address commemorative of seven young men of Danvers
. Salem: W. & S.B. Ives, 1835.
———. The California question and the ordinance of ‘87
. [Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1850].
———. Eulogy, at the funeral of General Gideon Foster
. Danvers, [Mass.]: G.R. Carlton—Courier Press, 1846.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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