Henry King (congressman)

Henry King ( born July 6, 1790 in Palmer, Hampden County, Massachusetts, † July 13, 1861 in Allentown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1831 and 1835, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry King received a classical education. After a subsequent law degree in 1815 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in Allentown to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1826 and 1828, and again from 1830 to 1832 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the congressional elections of 1830, King became the seventh constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Fry on March 4, 1831. After a re-election in the eighth district of his state, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1835 two legislative sessions. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

In 1834, King Henry gave up another candidacy. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 13 July 1861 in Allentown. His younger brother Thomas (1800-1864) was a congressman for Georgia, his nephew J. Floyd King (1842-1915) for the State of Louisiana.