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See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
KING, See also:RUFUS (1755–1827) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born on the 24th of See also:March 1755 at See also:Scarborough, See also:Maine, then a See also:part of See also:Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard in 1777, read See also:law at See also:Newburyport, See also:Mass., with See also:Theophilus See also:Parsons, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1780. He served in the Massachusetts See also:General See also:Court in 1783–1784 and in the See also:Confederation See also:Congress in 1784–1787. During these See also:critical years he adopted the " states' rights " attitude. It was largely through his efforts that the General Court in 1784 rejected the See also:amendment to the Articles of Confederation authorizing Congress to See also:levy a 5% See also:impost. He was one of the three Massachusetts delegates in Congress in 1785 who refused to See also:present the See also:resolution of the General Court proposing a See also:convention to amend the articles. He was also out of sympathy with the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting at See also:Annapolis in 1786. He did See also:good service, however, in opposing the See also:extension of See also:slavery. See also:Early in 1787 King was moved by the See also:Shays See also:Rebellion and by the See also:influence of See also:Alexander See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton to take a broader view of the general situation, and it was he who introduced the resolution in Congress, on the 21st of See also:February 1787, sanctioning the See also:call for the See also:Philadelphia constitutional convention. In the convention he supported the large-See also:state party, favoured a strong executive, advocated the suppression of the slave See also:trade, and opposed the counting of slaves in determining the See also:apportionment of representatives. In 1788 he was one of the most influential members of the Massachusetts convention which ratified the Federal Constitution. He married See also:Mary See also:Alsop (1769–1819) of New See also:York in 1786 and removed to that See also:city in 1788. He was elected a member of the New York See also:Assembly in the See also:spring of 1789, and at a See also:special session of the legislature held in See also:July of that See also:year was chosen one of the first representatives of New York in the See also:United States See also:Senate. In this See also:body he served in 1789–1796, supported Hamilton's See also:financial See also:measures, See also:Washington's See also:neutrality See also:proclamation and the See also:Jay Treaty, and became one of the recognized leaders of the Federalist party. He was See also:minister to See also:Great See also:Britain in 1796–1803 and again in 1825–1826, and was the Federalist See also:candidate for See also:vice-See also:president in 1804 and 18o8, and for president in 1816, when he
received 34 electoral votes to 183 See also:cast for See also:Monroe. He was again returned to the Senate in 1813, and was re-elected in 1819 as the result of a struggle between the See also:Van Buren and See also:Clinton factions of the Democratic–Republican party. In the See also:Missouri See also:Compromise debates he supported the See also:anti-slavery See also:programme in the See also:main, but for constitutional reasons voted against the second clause of the Tallmadge Amendment providing that all slaves born in the state after its See also:admission into the See also:Union should be See also:free at the See also:age of twenty-five years. He died at See also:Jamaica, See also:Long See also:Island, on the 29th of See also:April 1827.
The See also:Life and See also:Correspondence of Rufus King, begun about 185o by his son, See also:Charles King, was completed by his See also:grandson, Charles R. King, and published in six volumes (New York, 1894-1900).
Rufus King's son, See also:JOHN ALSOP KING (1788–1867), was educated at See also:Harrow and in See also:Paris, served in the See also:war of 1812 as a See also:lieutenant of a See also:cavalry See also:company, and was a member of the New York Assembly in 1819–1821 and of the New York Senate in 1823. When his See also:father was sent as minister to Great Britain in 1825 he accompanied him as secretary of the American See also:legation, and when his father returned See also:home on See also:account of See also:ill See also:health he remained as See also:charge d'affaires until See also:August 1826. He was a member of the New York Assembly again in 1832 and in 184o, was a Whig representative in Congress in 1849–1851, and in 1857–1859 was See also:governor of New York State. He was a prominent member of the Republican party, and in 1861 was a delegate to the See also:Peace See also:Conference in Washington.
Another son, CHARLES KING (1789–1867), was also educated abroad, was See also:captain of a volunteer See also:regiment in the early part of the war of 1812, and served in 1814 in the New York Assembly, and after working for some years as a journalist was president of See also:Columbia See also:College in 1849–1864.
A third son, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:GORE KING (1791-1853), was an assistant See also:adjutant-general in the war of 1812, was a banker in See also:Liverpool and afterwards in New York, and was president of the New York & See also:Erie railroad until 1837, when by his visit to See also:London he secured the See also:loan to American bankers of £I,000,000 from the See also:governors of the See also:Bank of See also:England. In 1849–1851 he was a representative in Congress from New See also:Jersey.
Charles King's son, RuFus KING (1814–1876), graduated at the U.S. Military See also:Academy in 1833, served for three years in the engineer See also:corps, and, after resigning from the See also:army, became assistant engineer of the New York & Erie railroad. He was adjutant-general of New York state in 1839–1843, and became a brigadier-general of See also:volunteers in the Union army in 1861, commanded a See also:division in See also:Virginia in 1862–1863, and, being cornpelled by ill health to resign from the army, was U.S. minister to the Papal States in 1863–1867.
His son, CHARLES KING (b. 1844), served in the See also:artillery until 1870 and in the cavalry until 1879; he was appointed brigadier-general U.S. Volunteers in the See also:Spanish War in 1898, and served in the Philippines. He wrote Famous and Decisive Battles (1884), Campaigning with Crook (189o), and many popular romances of military life.
End of Article: KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
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