Daniel P. King

Daniel Putnam King ( born January 8, 1801 in Peabody, Essex County, Massachusetts, † July 25, 1850 ) was an American politician. Between 1843 and 1850 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel King received a good basic education and then studied until 1823 at Harvard University. He also studied the law, but without working as a lawyer. Instead, he was engaged in farming. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In 1836 and 1837 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. From 1838 to 1841 he was a member of the State Senate, which he was president in 1840. In 1843 and 1844 he was again a member of the House of Representatives, which he chaired in 1844.

In the congressional elections of 1842, King became the second electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Leverett Saltonstall on March 4, 1843. After three re- elections he could remain until his death on July 25, 1850 in Congress. These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American war since 1845. From 1843 to 1845, King was Chairman of the Committee for the control of expenditure on public property. Later he headed from 1845 to 1847, the Committee on Accounts and then the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

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