He returned home and went to work to get the Constitution ratified and to position himself to be named to the U.S. In 1787, King was sent to the Federal constitutional convention at Philadelphia where he worked closely with Alexander Hamilton on the Committee of Style and Arrangement to prepare the final draft. He was one of the youngest at the conference. Massachusetts sent him to the Confederation Congress from 1784 to 1787. King was first elected to the Massachusetts state assembly in 1783, and returned there each year until 1785. He was admitted to the bar in 1780 and began a legal practice in Newburyport, Massachusetts. After the campaign, King returned to his apprenticeship under Parsons. Appointed a major, he served as an aide to General Sullivan in the Battle of Rhode Island. He began to read law under Theophilus Parsons, but his studies were interrupted in 1778 when King volunteered for militia duty in the American Revolutionary War. King attended Dummer Academy (now The Governor's Academy) and Harvard College, graduating in 1777. All of his sons, however, became patriots in the American War of Independence. It was not surprising that Richard King became a loyalist. Nobody was punished, and the next year the mob burned down his barn. His financial success aroused the jealousy of his neighbors, and when the Stamp Act 1765 was imposed, and rioting became almost respectable, a mob ransacked his house and destroyed most of the furniture. He was a son of Sabilla Blagden and Richard King, a prosperous farmer-merchant, who had settled at Dunstan Landing in Scarborough, near Portland, Maine, and had made a modest fortune by 1755, the year Rufus was born. He was born on March 24, 1755, at Scarborough which was then a part of Massachusetts but is now in the state of Maine.
He represented New York in the United States Senate, served as Minister to Britain, and was the Federalist candidate for both Vice President (1804, 1808) and President of the United States (1816).
He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. Rufus King (March 24, 1755 – April 29, 1827) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat.
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