鲁弗斯·金,国会议员,纽约州(1755-1827)

1755 - 1827
任职年限:
1789 - 1795;1795 - 1796;1813 - 1823;1823 - 1825
方:
Pro-Administration;联邦;联邦;Adams-Clay联邦

国王,鲁弗斯(赛勒斯·金同父异母的兄弟,约翰·艾尔索普·金和詹姆斯·戈尔·金的父亲),马萨诸塞州的代表和纽约州的参议员;1755年3月24日出生于缅因州斯卡伯勒(当时是马萨诸塞州的一个区);就读于马萨诸塞州比菲尔德的达默学院。1777年毕业于哈佛学院;参加过独立战争;学习法律;1780年获得律师资格并开始在纽伯里波特执业;1783-1785年马萨诸塞州法院代表;来自马萨诸塞州的大陆会议成员1784-1787;1787年费城联邦制宪会议和1788年批准制宪的州会议的代表; moved to New York City in 1788; member, New York assembly; elected to the United States Senate in 1789; reelected in 1795 and served from July 16, 1789, until May 1796, when he resigned to become United States Minister to Great Britain; Minister to Great Britain 1796-1803; unsuccessful Federalist candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1804; again elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate in 1813; reelected in 1819 and served from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1825; chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Sixteenth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Seventeenth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York in 1816 and for President of the United States in 1816; again United States Minister to Great Britain 1825-1826; died in Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y., April 29, 1827; interment in the churchyard of Grace Church.

参考书目

美国国家传记美国传记词典;恩斯特,罗伯特。鲁弗斯·金:美国联邦党人.教堂山:北卡罗来纳大学出版社,1968年;金,查尔斯,埃德。鲁弗斯·金的生活和通信.6波动率。1894 - 1900。重印。纽约:Da Capo出版社,1971年。

资料来源:美国国会传记目录,1771年至今

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