Governor John Alsop King1,2,3

b. 3 January 1788, d. 7 July 1867
Governor John Alsop King|b. 3 Jan 1788\nd. 7 Jul 1867|p7018.htm|Rufus King|b. 24 Mar 1755\nd. 29 Apr 1827|p7000.htm|Mary Alsop|b. 17 Oct 1769\nd. 6 Jun 1819|p7001.htm|Richard King|b. c 1718\nd. 27 Mar 1775|p6995.htm|Isabella Bragdon|b. 8 Apr 1731\nd. 19 Oct 1759|p6996.htm|John Alsop|||Mary Frogat|||

2nd cousin 3 times removed of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
2nd cousin 5 times removed of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Gov. John Alsop King
     Governor John Alsop King was born on 3 January 1788 in New York City.2 He was the son of Rufus King and Mary Alsop.1 He married Mary Ray, daughter of Cornelius Ray and Elizabeth Elmendorf, on 3 January 1810.1 He died on 7 July 1867 in Jamaica, Queens County, New York, at age 79.1,2,4,5 He was buried in Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York.4
     
     Governor John Alsop King was educated at Harrow, England, and in Paris; studied law in New York city, and was admitted to the bar. He served in the U.S. army during the war of 1812, and was promoted lieutenant of cavalry. At the close of the war he engaged in farming near his father's home in Jamaica, N.Y., and in 1819 was elected to the New York assembly, where he served several terms, and was subsequently elected to the state senate. In the state legislature he opposed the political methods of De Witt Clinton. He resigned from the senate in 1825 to go to London with his father, who had been appointed U.S. minister at the court of St. James. The failure of his father's health obliged him to return to the United States in a few months, and the son remained as chargé d'affaires until the arrival of Albert Gallatin, the newly-appointed minister, in 1826. He was again elected to the New York assembly in 1838, and was a representative in the 31st congress, 1849-51. He opposed the fugitive slave law and advocated the admission of California as a free state. He presided at the Whig state convention held at Syracuse, N.Y., 1855, when the Republican party was formed, and in 1856 was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Philadelphia, where he supported the nomination of John C. Frémont for President. He was one of the founders of the Queens County Agricultural Society and served several years as its president; also one of the founders of the New York State Agricultural Society and served as its president. He was governor of New York, 1857-58, declined renomination, was a member of the National peace conference at Washington, D.C., in February, 1861, and then retired to private life. He was a lay delegate to the annual conventions of the Protestant Episcopal church in the diocese of Long Island. He was president of the New York Historical society and a member of the American Historical Association.2,4 He was admitted a corresponding member of the NEHGS, on 13 July 1859.6

Children of Governor John Alsop King and Mary Ray

Citations

  1. [S707] John King of Boston MA, online http://members.tripod.com/~loupero/famous1.htm
  2. [S708] Rossiter Johnson, editor, Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904), Vol. VI.
  3. [S709] US Government, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949: The Continental Congress September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788 and The Congress of the United States From the First to the Eightieth Congress March 4, 1789 to January 3, 1949, Inclusive (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1950), p. 1413.
  4. [S709] US Government, Congressmen Bios, 1413.
  5. [S761] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 148 vols., 1847-1994) 21:377.
  6. [S761] NEHGR, 21:378.