King, Preston

Life Span
to
Full name
Preston King
Place of Birth
Ogdensburg, NY
Burial Place
Ogdensburg, NY
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Family
John King (father), Margaret Galloway King (mother) 
Other Education
Union College (NY)
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Free Soil
Republican
Government
Jackson Administration (1829-37)
Johnson Administration (1865-69)
US Senate
US House of Representatives
State legislature
Date Event
Former Senator Preston King, Collector of the Port of New York commits suicide in New York Harbor
Wilmot Proviso
Election of 1860
Thirty-Seventh Congress of the United States
Election of 1864
How to Cite This Page: "King, Preston," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/42892.