Rufus King was born in Scarbaro, Massachusetts (which is now Scarborough, Maine) on March 24, 1755 and he died April 29, 1827 in New York City. Rufus King was introduced to the fight for freedom in a not so possitive way. His father agreed with the Stamp Act and so one night the Sons of Liberty came and ransacked their home. King was only 11 years old at the time. However, this experience did not cause him to hate the colonists. He attended Harvard and had a law practice before his involvement in the war with England. He became a member of the Continental forces and served under John Hancock. After Yorktown, Rufus King was appointed as a member of Massachusetts' state legislature. He was friends with General Henry Knox, John Jay, and Robert Livingston some of America's most important men.
As a delegate from Massachusetts at the Constitutional Convention Rufus King was the first New Englander to arrive in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the convention he joined with James Madison to lead the fight for a strong national union, which was non-existant with the Articles of Confederation. After King went back to gain Massachusetts' ratification he returned to help formally organize a call for the Bill of Rights. Without Rufus King and other founders, we would most likely not have had the great nation under the Constitution that we have been blessed with for a long time.
2 comments:
Wow they got their education at a young age. He was only 21 in 1776.
Back then Harvard was a good school I guess.
Did rufus king agree with the bill of rights?
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