William H. King
William King | |
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Abe Murdock | |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah's at-large district | |
In office April 2, 1900 – March 3, 1901 | |
Preceded by | B. H. Roberts (Elect)* |
Succeeded by | George Sutherland |
In office March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899 | |
Preceded by | Clarence Emir Allen |
Succeeded by | B. H. Roberts (Elect)* |
Personal details | |
Born | William Henry King June 3, 1863 Fillmore, Utah Territory, U.S. |
Died | November 27, 1949 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. | (aged 86)
Resting place | Salt Lake City Cemetery |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouses | Annie Lyman
(m. 1889; died 1906)Vera Sjodahl (m. 1912) |
Children | 7, including Culbert L. Olson, first cousin |
Education | University of Utah University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (LLB) |
*Roberts was denied from being seated. | |
William Henry King (June 3, 1863 – November 27, 1949) was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist from Salt Lake City, Utah. As a Democrat, King represented Utah in the United States Senate from 1917 until 1941.
Life
King was born in
After holding local offices and serving two terms in the territorial legislature, he graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He later joined the Utah bar and practiced law. He held other territorial offices and was appointed as an associate justice of the Utah Supreme Court, serving between 1894 and 1896.
After Utah became a state in 1896, King was elected to the
King was elected to the United States Senate four times, serving between March 4, 1917 and January 3, 1941. In 1918 and 1919, he served on the
Though a Democrat, King was somewhat independent of the popular Democratic president
He served as the
King remained in Washington, D.C., where he practiced law until April 1947. He returned to Utah and died there in 1949. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.
King was married twice, first to Louisa Ann "Annie" Lyman, to whom he wed in 1889, and remained with her to her death on April 16, 1906.[3][4] He was then married to Vera B. Sjodahl, a daughter of Janne M. Sjödahl, from 1912 to his own death in 1949.[5] One of his sons by Vera, David S. King, served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was a United States Ambassador to both the Malagasy Republic and Mauritius. One of his granddaughters, Jody Olsen, has served as Director of the Peace Corps since 2018. His paternal first cousin, Culbert Olson, was a Governor of California.
King was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, his family's English immigrant ancestor to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows:[6]
- William H. King, son of
- William King (1834–1892), son of
- Thomas Rice King (1813–1879),[7] son of
- Thomas King (1770–1845), son of
- William King (1724–1793), son of
- Ezra Rice King (1697–1746), son of
- Samuel Rice King (1667–1713), son of
- Samuel Rice (1634–1684), son of
- Edmund Rice(1594–1663)
See also
References
- ^ "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah", FamilySearch, retrieved April 27, 2018
- ^ "UTAH: King into Exile". Time. September 16, 1940.
- ^ "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940", FamilySearch, retrieved April 27, 2018
- ^ "Utah Deaths and Burials", FamilySearch, retrieved April 27, 2018
- ^ "Utah Marriages, 1887-1935", FamilySearch, retrieved April 27, 2018
- ^ Edmund Rice (1638) Association, 2007. Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations.
- ^ "Thomas Rice King". Early Latter Day Saints; Mormon Trail Database. Retrieved September 21, 2010.
External links
- Media related to William H. King at Wikimedia Commons
- United States Congress. "William H. King (id: K000216)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- William Henry and David S. King papers, MSS 6143 at the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
- J. Kubeldzis scrapbooks on William Henry King at the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University