David Sjodahl King (June 20, 1917 – May 5, 2009) was a

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from

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. He was a member of the

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Early life and education

King was born in

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, in 1917. He graduated from the

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in 1937. From 1937 to 1939, he served as a

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for

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(LDS Church) in

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. After his mission, King attended and graduated from

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. After serving as a clerk for Justice Howard M. Stephens of the

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in 1943, King returned to Utah.

Legal and political career

In Utah, King served as counsel to the Utah Tax Commission from 1944 to 1946. He also was involved in private practice from 1945. From 1946 to 1958, he taught commercial law at Intermountain Business College. From 1948 to 1958, King was the second assistant to Elbert R. Curtis, who was the ninth General Superintendent of the church's

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. King was elected as a

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to the 86th and 87th

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es between January 3, 1959 and January 3, 1963. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1962, choosing instead to run for a seat in the

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. His senatorial campaign was unsuccessful. King was elected to the 89th Congress in 1964, but was defeated in his bid for reelection in 1966. He was appointed United States Ambassador to Madagascar and to

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in January 1967 and in May 1968, respectively, serving in those two positions concurrently until August 1969. During the 1970s and 1980s, King practiced law in

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, and served as an alternate director at the

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. He retired in 1986 to devote his time to serving the LDS Church.

LDS Church service in retirement

From July 1986 to June 1989, he served as

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of the church's Haiti Port-au-Prince

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. King served from September 1990 to 1993 as the

of the

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. In November 1994, he was called to serve as a

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for the Washington D.C. Stake and the District of Columbia

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Family life

King was a resident of

where he lived with his wife of 61 years, Rosalie King. They were the parents of eight children, including Josephine "Jody" Olsen who became Director of the

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in 2018. His father, William H. King, was a Senator from

. He was preceded in death by his sons David King, Jr., and Elliott West King. David King died on May 5, 2009, and was buried in

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Genealogy

King was a direct patrilineal descendant of Edmund Rice, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows: :*David Sjodahl King, son of ::* William Henry King, (1863 – 1949), son of ::* William King (1834 – 1892), son of ::* Thomas Rice King (1813 – 1879), 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)

Published works

References

External links

Materials relating to David S. King
at L. Tom Perry Special Collections,

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