Henry W. King (September 24, 1815 – November 20, 1857) was a Free Soil politician in the U.S. state of Ohio who served as Ohio Secretary of State 1850–1852.

Biography

Henry W. King was born in 1815 in Westfield, Massachusetts, the eldest son of Judge

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. He moved with his parents to

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in 1817. King graduated from Washington (later Trinity) College in

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in 1836, and from Cincinnati Law School in 1839. Henry W. King opened a law office in Akron, Ohio in 1839 with

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, and later with James D. Taylor, and in 1849 with his brother David L. King as ''King & King''. He was married October 20, 1842 to Mary Crosby, daughter of Dr. Elaikim Crosby. Son Harry Crosby King died during the American Civil War, August 11, 1864, while in the

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. Daughter Julia Huntington married and moved to Chicago. King was active in promoting Akron's Union School System. In 1850 he was elected by the

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as Ohio Secretary of State to a three-year term. A new constitution, adopted in summer of 1851, made the office elective, and an election was scheduled for autumn, 1851, shortening King's term to January 1852. In the 1851 election, King came in third to Democrat

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and Whig Earl Bill. He returned to Akron after his term, and died there November 20, 1857.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:King, Henry W. 1815 births 1857 deaths University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni Secretaries of state of Ohio Politicians from Akron, Ohio Ohio Free Soilers Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni