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Rufus King
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Rufus King (March 24, 1755April 29, 1827) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution in 1787. After formation of the new Congress, he represented New York in the United States Senate. He emerged as a leading member of the Federalist Party and was the party's last presidential nominee during the 1816 presidential election.The son of a prosperous Massachusetts merchant, King studied law before he volunteered for the militia during the American Revolutionary War. He won election to the Massachusetts General Court in 1783 and to the Congress of the Confederation the following year. At the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, he emerged as a leading nationalist and called for increased powers for the federal government. After the convention, King returned to Massachusetts, where he used his influence to help ratify the Constitution. At the urging of Alexander Hamilton, he then abandoned his law practice and moved to New York City.
He won election to represent New York in the United States Senate in 1789 and remained in office until 1796. That year, he accepted President George Washington's appointment to the position of Minister to Great Britain. Though King aligned with Hamilton's Federalist Party, the Democratic-Republican President Thomas Jefferson retained King's services after Jefferson's victory in the 1800 presidential election. King served as the Federalist vice-presidential candidate in the 1804 and 1808 elections and ran on an unsuccessful ticket with Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina. Though most Federalists supported the Democratic-Republican DeWitt Clinton in the 1812 presidential election, King, without the support of his party, won the few votes of the Federalists who were unwilling to support Clinton's candidacy. In 1813, King returned to the Senate and remained in office until 1825.
King, the ''de facto'' Federalist nominee for president in 1816, lost in a landslide to James Monroe. The Federalist Party became defunct at the national level after 1816, and King was the last presidential nominee whom the party fielded. Nonetheless, King was able to remain in the Senate until 1825, which made him the last Federalist senator because of a split in the New York Democratic-Republican Party. King then accepted President John Quincy Adams's appointment to serve another term as ambassador to Great Britain, but ill health forced King to retire from public life, and he died in 1827. King had five children who lived to adulthood, and he has had numerous notable descendants. Provided by Wikipedia
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2In Senate of the United States, April 3, 1818: Mr. King submitted the following motion for considerationPublished 1818Read online (BSB)
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3In Senate of the United States. April 3d, 1816: Mr. King, from the committee appointed on the subject, submitted the following motion for considerationPublished 1816Read online (BSB)
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4In Senate of the United States. April 9, 1816: Mr. King submitted the following motion for considerationPublished 1816Read online (BSB)
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5Mr. King's motionPublished 1814Read online (BSB)
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6The speech of Rufus King, Esq., in the Senate on the navigation laws of the United States: which is at this time deserving of the serious attention of the British legislaturePublished 1819Read online (BSB)
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7The speech of Rufus King, Esq., in the Senate, on the navigation laws of the United StatesPublished 1819Read online (BSB)
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8In Senate of the United States, March 17, 1818: Mr. King submitted the following motion for considerationPublished 1818Read online (BSB)
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9Mr. King's motionPublished 1815Read online (BSB)
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10Mr. King's motionPublished 1813Read online (BSB)
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11Das große Verbrechen (Crime of violence, dt.) Ein klassPublished 1980Order via interlibrary loanBook
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12Papers relative to the restriction of slavery: speeches of Mr. King, in the Senate, and of Messrs. Taylor & Talmadge in the House of Representatives, of the United States, on the bill for authorising the people of the territory of Missouri to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of the same into the Union ; in the session of 1818-19, with a report of a committee of the Abolition Society of DelawarePublished 1819Read online (BSB)
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13Substance of two speeches, delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the subject of the Missouri billPublished 1819Read online (BSB)
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14Speech of the Hon. Rufus King on the American Navigation Act: delivered in the Senate of the United States at the last session of CongressPublished 1818Read online (BSB)
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19Secret beyond the door ...: = Das Geheimnis hinter der TürPublished 2012Order via interlibrary loanVideo Software
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