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senator, and vice-president of the United States, was born in Sampson County, the second son of William. 'It's to hype up the crowd but also for us its to have fun,' said Zackary Munoz, a student at. William Rufus Devane King, congressman, diplomat, U.S. A crowd in front of Kings farm after the murders. The Greenfield High School band and Rufus King High School drumline provided the music for tailgaters. The Kings were part of the King family of Massachusetts, New York and Maine.
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He was the grandson of Rufus King, delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention. View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Rufus Allen King was an American tenant farmer who killed his six children in Clinton, North Carolina, United States on October 2, 1956, before committing suicide. King was born in New York City, New York, to Charles King, president of Columbia College, and Eliza Gracie. KING, Rufus, (half brother of Cyrus King and father of John Alsop King and James Gore King), a Delegate from Massachusetts and a Senator from New York born in Scarboro, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts), Maattended Dummer Academy, Byfield, Mass., and graduated from Harvard College in 1777 served in the Revolutionary War studied law admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Newburyport in 1780 delegate to the Massachusetts General Court 1783-1785 Member of the Continental Congress from Massachusetts 1784-1787 delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and one of the signers of the Constitution delegate to the State convention in 1788 which ratified the Constitution 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 Machairman, 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., Apinterment in the churchyard of Grace Church.