Rufus H. King

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

Career

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

In the congressional elections of 1854 for the 34th Congress King was for the opposition party at the eleventh electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Theodoric R. Westbrook on March 4, 1855. Since he gave up for reelection in 1856, he retired after March 3, 1857 from the Congress.

After his conference time he went back to his work as a lawyer after. In the presidential election of 1860, he appeared for the Republican Party as an elector ( presidential elector ). Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin emerged as the winners of the race. Between 1865 and 1867 he was president of the Catskill National Bank. After the merger of the bank with the Tanners ' National Bank, he was a Director (Board of Directors ). He took in the years 1868 and 1880 as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in part. On September 13, 1890, he died in Catskill, and was then buried in the Village Cemetery.