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A look at King County's original (ex) namesake
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Mar 13, 2006 06:46am |
| Category | Profile |
| News Date | Mar 13, 2006 06:45am |
| Description | The 13th vice president of the United States, William Rufus Devane King, ranks among the more obscure of the many obscurities who have held that office.
In fact, he never actually served as vice president at all: Inaugurated in March 1853 in Cuba, under a special dispensation from Congress, he barely made it back to the United States and never got out of Alabama before dying the next month.
But for more than 150 years, thanks to an accident of historical timing, W.R.D. King was the namesake of King County.
Last year, the Legislature gave legal sanction to a 1986 County Council resolution redesignating the county in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. |
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