Rufus King
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Rufus King was an American Founding Father, lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention and was one of the signer
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1820
King's 1825 nomination to be minister to Great Britain
Oil painting of King by Charles Willson Peale (1818)
Statue of King in his Jamaica, Queens, library
The 1789 United States Senate election in New York was held in July 1789 to elect two U.S. senators to represent the State of New York in the United States Senate. It was the first such election, and
Philip Schuyler by John Trumbull
