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KING. 502 KING. of the Australian Agricultural Society, and rear- admiral on the retired list (1855), he being the lirsl Australian to attain this rank. BUNG, Preston (1800-G5). An American po- litical leader and legislator, born in Ogdensburg, X. V. lie graduated at Union College in 1827, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practiee in Saint Lawrence County. In 1830 he founded and became editor of the Saint Lawrence Jtcjmblican, which was the princii)al organ of the Jackson Part_v in northern New York Stata. As a rcwaid for his services Presi- dent .Tackson appointed him in 1833 postmaster at Ogdensburg, and in the following year he occujiicd his lirst political ollice as a member of the New Vork Assembly, to which he was re- elected in the three succeeding years. In 1842 he was elected to the Twcnly-ciglitJi Congress, and he was also reelected to the Twenty-ninlh Congress, serving from 1843 to 1847. He was again a candidate in 1848, this time as a Tree Soil Democrat, and was rccleclcd in 1850. He re- mained a Democrat, altlunigh associatoil with the anti-slavery branch of llie ]iarty, until the,for- mation of the Itepublican P:ny in 1854. He be- came the Pvcpublican candidate for Secretary of State in 1855, and in 1850 took the stump for Fremont. In 1857, the Republicans having ob- tained control of the New York Legislature, ho was elected b.v that party to the United States Senate, in which he remained until 1863. In 1804 he was a delegate to the Rcpuliliean Con- vention at IJaltimore, where he was one of those who engineered the nomination of Andrew John- son for the Vice-Presidency, a service which the latter, when he became President, rewarded by appointing King Collector of the Port of New York. He committed suicide by jumping from a Hudson River ferryboat on November 12, 1865, while temporarily insane. KING, RuFUS (1755-1827). An American po- litical leader, born March 24, 1755, at Scar- borough, Maine. He graduated at Harvard in 1777, read law with Cliicf .Justice Thcophilus Parsons, and was admitted to the bar in 17S0, his studies beins interrui)ted for a brief period in 1778, when he served as an aide to General Glover in the Rhode Island expedition. In 1783 he took his seat in the General Court of Massa- chusetts, to which he was several' times reelected, and he became a member of the Continental Con- gress in December, 1784, being reelected in 1785 and 1786. He there introduced in March. 1785, a re?(dution prohibiting slavery in the Northwest Territorici. The substance of this resolution was suhsc(|Uontlv incorporated by his colleague, Na- than Dane, into the famous Ordinance of 1787 (q.v.). He took a prominent part in the pro- ceedings of the convention of 1787 which framed the Federal Constitution, and in the Massachu- setts convention called to decide upon the adop- tion or refection of that instnunent he was in- strumental in securing ratification. In 1786 he married Mar.y .Msop, daughter of John Alsop, and in 1788 removed to New York City, where he was elected to the State .Assembly in 1780, and in the same year was elected to the United States Senate, where he at once took a hiyh place as a leader of the Federalists. King was reelected in 1705, and in 1706 he accepted from President Washington, who had previoiisly offered him a place in his Cabinet as Secretary of State, the re- sponsible post of Minister to England. He dis- tinguished himself highly in the diplomatic ser- vice, in which he conlinued until 1803. In the year following his return he was mentioned as candidate for the Senate, and for Governor of New Yorl<, and as the Federalist candidate for Vice-President received fourteen votes. Again in 1808 he was the Federalist candidate for the same oiiice, receiving 47 votes. In 1813 and again in 1819 he received the honor of an election to the United Stales Senate by a Legislature a majority of which was Republican. During the war with England he did not side with the extreme Feder- alists, but supported the Administration in such measures as seemed to him to be for the general good. Nevertheless, in 1816, the few Federalist electoral votes for President were cast for him. In 1825-20 he was again .Minister to England. He died April 20. 1827. An elaborate Life and Correxpomhixce has been published by his grand- son, Ciiarles R. King (G vols.. New York, 1804- 1000). KING, RuFus (1814-76). An American soldier and journalist, born in New York City, son of Charles King, president of Columl)ia Col- lege, and grandson of Rufus King, lie gradu- ated at West Point in 1833, but tliree years later resigned from the arnn' and became an assistant engineer on the New Y'ork and Erie Railroad. In 1830 he went to Albany, where he became editor of the Advertiser, and Adjutant- General of the State of New Y'ork, in virtue of which latter ofl'ce he connnanded the troops called out to suppress the Anti-Rent riots. In 1841 lie became associate editor of the Albany Evening Journal, but four years later relin- quished this position to become editor and part proprietor of the Jlilwaukcc Sentinel and (trizrfle, which during the sixteen years of his editorship became the leading newspaper in Wisconsin. He was appointed Minister to the Pontifical States by Lincoln in 1801, but just as he was about to eml)ark for Rome came the news of the tiring on Fort Sumter, whereupon he resigned his post and applied for an appointment in the military ser- vice. He was at once commissioned brigadier- general of Wisconsin Volunteers, and later was transferred with the same rank to the United States Volunteers, and was placed in cmnmand of the 'Iron Brigade.' His division met two of Jackson's divisions at Groveton on August 28, 1862, and repulsed them, and on the following two days took part in the second battle of Bull Run. He was comjielled by ill health to resign on October 20, 1803. and was immediately reappointed Minister to the Pontiiical St.-ites. a post which he held until it was abolished by Congress in 1867. when he returned to the United States, and became deputy collector of customs for the city of New- Y'ork. KING, Thomas Starr (1824-64). An emi- nent I'nitarian clerg^nlan. He was born in New Y'ork City December 17, 1824, studied theology while employed as a teacher, and in 1846 became pastor of a Unitarian church in Charlestown Mass., which his father had formerly served. In 1848 he removed to Boston, where he was pas- tor of the Hollis Street Church. He gained wide popularity as a lecturer, in which capacity he found constant employment from 1845 to 1860. In the latter year he received a call to the only Unitarian church in San Francisco, and began his ministrations theie in the summer. When