Cyrus King

Cyrus King ( born September 6, 1772 in Scarborough, Cumberland County, Massachusetts, † April 25, 1817 in Saco, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1817 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cyrus King was a half-brother of U.S. Senator Rufus King ( 1755-1827 ). He was born in 1772 in Scarborough in present-day Maine and attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, and then until 1794 the Columbia College in New York City. After a subsequent law degree in 1797 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Saco in this profession. In the meantime, he served in 1796 as private secretary to his brother Rufus, as this U.S. envoy was in the UK. Later, King Cyrus was also a major general in the militia of Massachusetts. He was also co-founder of Thornton Academy in Saco. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1812, King became the 14th electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard Cutts on March 4, 1813. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1817 two legislative sessions. These were initially still affected by the events of the British - American War. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he returned to Saco, where he died already on 25 April 1817.