Perkins King

Perkins King (born January 12, 1784 in New Marlboro , Massachusetts , † November 29, 1857 in Freehold , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1829 and 1831 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Perkins King was born in New Marlboro about four months after the War of Independence ended . He pursued an academic career. King studied law and was admitted to the bar. In 1802 he moved to Greenville , where he practiced as a lawyer. He worked in 1815 as a town clerk ( town clerk ) and sat 1827 in the New York State Assembly . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction.

In the 1828 congressional elections for the 21st Congress , King was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 11th Congressional District of New York , where he succeeded Selah R. Hobbie on March 4, 1829 . He retired from the after 3 March 1831 Congress of.

Between 1838 and 1847 he served as a district judge in Greene County . He then resumed his practice as a lawyer. He died in Freehold on November 29, 1857 and was buried in Snyder Cemetery .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 72, 205, 285, and 861.

Web links

• Perkins King in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Perkins King in the database of Find a Grave (English)