John A. King
John Alsop King ( born January 3, 1788 in New York City; † July 7, 1867 in Jamaica, New York ) was an American politician and from 1857 to 1859 Governor of New York. Between 1849 and 1851 he represented this state in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Early years and political rise
John King was the son of U.S. Senator Rufus King (1755-1827) and the older brother of Congressman James G. King ( 1791-1853 ). He attended Harrow School in England, and studied in Paris. After his return from the French capital to the United States he was still studying law. During the British - American War of 1812 he was lieutenant of a cavalry unit. He then worked as a farmer in Jamaica, New York.
Between 1819 and 1821 King sat as an MP in the New York State Assembly, from 1823 to 1825 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1825 he was employed at the American Embassy in London. After dissolution of the Democratic-Republican Party King was a member of the Whigs. In the years 1832, 1838 and 1840 he was again elected to the State Assembly. 1839 and 1852 he was a delegate to the Whig National Conventions. For this party, he was between 4 March 1849, the March 3, 1851 for a term of deputy in the Congress. He then worked as a lawyer. After his party had dissolved the mid-1850s, King member of the newly formed Republican whose Republican National Convention was he visited in 1856 as a delegate.
Governor of New York and other CV
On November 4, 1856 John King was chosen as the first candidate of the Republican Party for Governor of New York, where he prevailed with 45:33 percent of the vote to Democrat Amasa J. Parker. King began his two-year term on January 1, 1857. During his tenure, the agricultural society of the State of New York was established and improved the education system of the state. After the end of his tenure, King was a delegate to an unsuccessful conference in the spring of 1861 in Washington DC took place and should prevent the outbreak of civil war in the last minute. After that, King withdrew from politics. He died in 1867 in Jamaica on Long Iceland. With his wife, Mary Ray, he had seven children.