Proceedings ...: On the Occasion of a Complimentary Dinner to James Ware ...
Proceedings ...: On the Occasion of a Complimentary Dinner to James Ware ...
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His was not a sec- ondary mind. He was one of the three distin- guished sons of Richard King, of Scarborough, — Ruf us, William, and Cyrus. Rufus King has a national reputation, as one of the great men of the day of Washington and Jefferson. Educated at Harvard, he was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the Con- gress under the Confederation, and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia. In 1784 he moved to New York, was one of the first two senators of that State... to the Congress 1 Excepting a notice of him in tlie Popham volume. Digitized by Google 18 ANNIVERSARY DINNER TO under the Constitution ; was appointed Minister to Great Britain by Washington ; was again elected to the Senate in 1813, and reelected in 1820 ; and in 1825 President Adams appointed him Minister to the court of St. James. Returning after a year's service, he died in 1827. In all these positions he was recognized as a man of commanding abilities. Cyrus King, the younger half brother, was scarcely less marked for intellectual power.
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