Rufus H. King

Rufus H. King (born January 20, 1820 in Rensselaerville , New York , † September 13, 1890 in Catskill , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Rufus H. King was born in Rensselaerville, Albany County , about five years after the end of the British-American War . He completed his undergraduate studies and then graduated from Wesleyan University in Lima . King studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and then began practicing in Catskill.

In the congressional elections of 1854 for the 34th Congress , King was elected for the opposition party in the eleventh constituency of New York to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Theodoric R. Westbrook on March 4, 1855 . Since he on a run again in 1856 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1857 Congress of.

After his time at Congress he went back to his practice as a lawyer. In the presidential election of 1860 , he joined the Republican Party as an elector ( presidential elector on). Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin went out of the race as winners. Between 1865 and 1867 he was President of the Catskill National Bank . After the merger of the bank with the Tanners' National Bank , he sat on the board of directors . He attended the Republican National Conventions as a delegate in 1868 and 1880 . He died on September 13, 1890 in Catskill and was then buried in the Village Cemetery .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 76 and 85.

Web links

• Rufus H. King in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Rufus H. King in the database of Find a Grave (English)