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Senate Years of Service: 1917-1941 Party: Democrat
KING, William Henry, (father of David S. King),
a Representative and a Senator from Utah; born in Fillmore, Millard
County, Utah, June 3, 1863; attended the public schools, Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah, and the University of Utah at Salt Lake City; church
missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Great Britain
1880-1883; returned to his home in Utah and was elected to various offices in
the city of Fillmore and in Millard County; member, Territorial legislature two
terms; graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor; admitted to the bar in 1890 and commenced practice in Utah; member,
Territorial council 1891 and served as president; associate justice of the Utah
supreme court 1894-1896, when Utah was admitted as a state into the Union;
elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3,
1899); was not a candidate for renomination in 1898; elected to the Fifty-sixth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the unseating of Brigham H. Roberts and
served from April 2, 1900, to March 3, 1901; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress and for election in 1902 to
the Fifty-eighth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in
1916; reelected in 1922, 1928, and 1934 and served from March 4, 1917, to
January 3, 1941; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1940; served as
President pro tempore of the Senate during the Seventy-sixth Congress;
chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-fifth
Congress), Committee on the District of Columbia (Seventy-third through
Seventy-sixth Congresses); engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C.,
until April 1947; returned to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he resided until his
death on November 27, 1949; interment in Salt Lake City Cemetery.
BibliographyHauptman, Laurence M. Utah Anti-Imperialist: Senator William H.
King and Haiti, 1921-1934.
Utah Historical Quarterly 41 (Spring 1973): 116-27; Libby,
Justin H. Senators King and Thomas and the Continuing War with Japan.
Utah Historical Quarterly 42 (Fall 1974): 370-80.
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