In 1813, he was elected again to the U.S. He was the unsuccessful Federalist Party candidate for vice president in 18. While in Britain, he was in close personal contact with South American revolutionary Francisco de Miranda and facilitated Miranda's trip to the United States in search of support for his failed 1806 expedition to Venezuela. and Britain it became hostile after 1805. His term was marked by friendship between the U.S. He successfully settled disputes that the Jay Treaty had opened for negotiation. Although he was a leading Federalist, Thomas Jefferson kept him in office until King asked to be relieved. King played a major diplomatic role as Minister to the Court of St. King's nomination to be Minister to the UK (1825) Before becoming Minister to Britain, King was offered the post of Secretary of State by President George Washington but declined it. He was re-elected in 1795 but resigned on May 23, 1796, having been appointed U. Governor George Clinton, looking to cause a rift between the Livingstons and the Schuyler family (Hamilton was Philip Schuyler's son-in-law), discreetly supported King, and as a result he was elected in 1789. Alexander Hamilton endorsed Rufus King as a candidate, thwarting the plans of the prominent Livingston family, who had hoped to place one of their own, James Duane, on the seat.
When the United States Constitution took effect, the State Legislature disagreed on who should be chosen besides Philip Schuyler for U.S. Massachusetts ratified the Constitution, but his efforts to be elected to the Senate failed.Īt Hamilton's urging, he moved to New York City, and was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1789.
He returned home and went to work to get the Constitution ratified and to position himself to be named to the U.S. In 1787, King was sent to the Federal constitutional convention at Philadelphia where he worked closely with Alexander Hamilton on the Committee of Style and Arrangement to prepare the final draft. He was one of the youngest at the conference. Massachusetts sent him to the Confederation Congress from 1784 to 1787. King was first elected to the Massachusetts state assembly in 1783, and returned there each year until 1785. He was admitted to the bar in 1780 and began a legal practice in Newburyport, Massachusetts. After the campaign, King returned to his apprenticeship under Parsons. Appointed a major, he served as an aide to General Sullivan in the Battle of Rhode Island. He began to read law under Theophilus Parsons, but his studies were interrupted in 1778 when King volunteered for militia duty in the American Revolutionary War. King attended Dummer Academy (now The Governor's Academy) and Harvard College, graduating in 1777. All of his sons, however, became patriots in the American War of Independence. It was not surprising that Richard King became a loyalist. Nobody was punished, and the next year the mob burned down his barn. His financial success aroused the jealousy of his neighbors, and when the Stamp Act 1765 was imposed, and rioting became almost respectable, a mob ransacked his house and destroyed most of the furniture.
He was a son of Sabilla Blagden and Richard King, a prosperous farmer-merchant, who had settled at Dunstan Landing in Scarborough, near Portland, Maine, and had made a modest fortune by 1755, the year Rufus was born. He was born on March 24, 1755, at Scarborough which was then a part of Massachusetts but is now in the state of Maine. He represented New York in the United States Senate, served as Minister to Britain, and was the Federalist candidate for both Vice President (1804, 1808) and President of the United States (1816). He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. Rufus King (March 24, 1755 – April 29, 1827) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat.
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