Rufus King (1755–1827)
Rufus King was born on 24 March 1755 in Scarborough, present-day Maine. A Harvard graduate, he served in the Revolutionary War, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In 1786 King married Mary Alsop (1769–1819), the only daughter of John Alsop, a wealthy merchant and New York delegate to the Continental Congress.
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"To James Madison from James Monroe, 5 February 1820," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-02-02-0004. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 1 February 1820 – 26 February 1823, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, pp. 2–3.]
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