John A. King (1817–1900)
John Alsop King (July 14, 1817 Jamaica, Queens County, New York – November 21, 1900 Manhattan, New York City) was an American politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Gov. John A. King (1788–1867) and Mary (Ray) King (1790–1873). He attended Union Hall Academy in Jamaica; and graduated from Harvard College in 1835. Then he engaged briefly in mercantile pursuits, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced for some time. However, he spent most of his life as a gentleman farmer, looking after the family estate. On February 21, 1839, he married Mary Colden Rhinelander (1818–1894), a granddaughter of New York Attorney General Josiah Ogden Hoffman (1766–1837), and they had five daughters.
He was a delegate to the 1872 Republican National Convention; a presidential elector in 1872, voting for Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson; and a member of the New York State Senate (1st D.) in 1874 and 1875. In 1876 and 1880, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress.
He was President of the New-York Historical Society from 1887 until his death.
He died of pneumonia at the Savoy Hotel in Manhattan which had been his winter residence for a number of years, and was buried at the Grace Episcopal Churchyard in Jamaica, Queens.
Sources
- Life Sketches of Government Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1875 by W. H. McElroy and Alexander McBride (pg. 68ff) [e-book]
- DEATH LIST OF A DAY; John A. King in NYT on November 22, 1900
- J. ALSOP KING, HISTORIAN in NYT on November 24, 1900
External links
| New York State Senate | ||
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| Preceded by Townsend D. Cock |
New York State Senate 1st District 1874–1875 |
Succeeded by L. Bradford Prince |