History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . Preston King Preston King; born in Ogdensburg, N. Y., October 14, 1806;was graduated from Union college, 1827; lawyer; establishedthe St. Lawrence Republican, 1830; postmaster of ; member of the state legislature, 1835-1838; incongress, 1843-1853; elected to the United States senate andserved 1857-1863; delegate to the national convention andpresidential elector on the republican ticket in 1S64; appointedby President Johnson as collector of the port of New York,August 15, 1865; drowned from a ferryboat in New Y
History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . Preston King Preston King; born in Ogdensburg, N. Y., October 14, 1806;was graduated from Union college, 1827; lawyer; establishedthe St. Lawrence Republican, 1830; postmaster of ; member of the state legislature, 1835-1838; incongress, 1843-1853; elected to the United States senate andserved 1857-1863; delegate to the national convention andpresidential elector on the republican ticket in 1S64; appointedby President Johnson as collector of the port of New York,August 15, 1865; drowned from a ferryboat in New Yorkharbor, November 12, John Van Buren John Van Buren, lawyer; son of Martin Van Buren, presi-dent of the United States; born, Hudson, N. Y., February 18,1810; graduated from Yale, 1828; admitted to the bar atAlbany, 1830; was attache of legation at London, February,1831; in February, 1845 was elected attorney general of thestate of New York and served until December, 1846; took anactive part in the political canvass for the exclusion of slaveryin 1848, but did not stay by the free soil party; ranked highas an attorney and won the sobriquet Prince John by hisgood looks and popularity; died at sea, October 13, 1866. 1844] GOVERNOR BOUCK 305 1843. left a vacancy on the bench of the United StatesSupreme Court which it was generally conceded shouldbe filled with another New Yorker. In December ofthat year President Tyler sent to the Senate the name3f John C. Spencer, of New York, who was at that timeSecretary of War. Confirmation was refused, the WhigSenators voting against him on the purely politicalground that
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