Perkins King

Perkins King ( born January 12, 1784 in New Marlboro, Massachusetts, † November 29, 1857 in Freehold, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1829 and 1831 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Perkins King was born about four months after the end of the Revolutionary War in New Marlboro. He pursued an academic career. King studied law and was admitted as a lawyer. In 1802 he moved to Greenville, where he practiced law. He worked in 1815 as a town clerk (town clerk ) and sat 1827 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1828 for the 21th Congress, King became the eleventh electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Selah R. Hobbie on March 4, 1829. He retired after March 3, 1831 from the Congress.

Between 1838 and 1847 he worked as a district judge in Greene County. Then he resumed his activities as a lawyer. He died on 29 November 1857 in Freehold and was then buried in the Snyder Cemetery.