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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Massachusetts / New YorkRufus KING
(1755-1827)
Senate Years of Service:
1789-1795; 1795-1796; 1813-1823; 1823-1825Party: Pro-Administration;
Federalist; Federalist; Adams-Clay FederalistKING, Rufus, (half brother
of Cyrus King and father of John Alsop King and James Gore King), a
Delegate from Massachusetts and a Senator from New York; born in
Scarboro, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts), March 24, 1755;
attended Dummer Academy, Byfield, Mass., and graduated from Harvard
College in 1777; served in the Revolutionary War; studied law;
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Newburyport in 1780;
delegate to the Massachusetts General Court 1783-1785; Member of
the Continental Congress from Massachusetts 1784-1787; delegate to
the Federal constitutional convention at Philadelphia in 1787 and
to the State convention in 1788 which ratified the same; moved to
New York City in 1788; member, New York assembly; elected to the
United States Senate in 1789; reelected in 1795 and served from
July 16, 1789, until May 1796, when he resigned to become United
States Minister to Great Britain; Minister to Great Britain
1796-1803; unsuccessful Federalist candidate for Vice President of
the United States in 1804; again elected as a Federalist to the
United States Senate in 1813; reelected in 1819 and served from
March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1825; chairman, Committee on Roads and
Canals (Sixteenth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations
(Seventeenth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New
York in 1816 and for President of the United States in 1816; again
United States Minister to Great Britain 1825-1826; died in Jamaica,
Long Island, N.Y., April 29, 1827; interment in the churchyard of
Grace Church.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Ernst, Robert. Rufus King: American
Federalist. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1968; King, Charles, ed. The Life and Correspondence of Rufus
King. 6 vols. 1894-1900. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press,
1971.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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