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Ed 301 512 Title Institution Report No Pub Date DOCUMENT RESUME ED 301 512 SO 019 488 TITLE Rufus King: Soldier-Statesmen ofthe Constitution. A Bicentennial Series No. 15. INSTITUTION Army Center of Military History,Washington, D.C. REPORT NO CMH-Pub-71-15 PUB DATE 87 NOTE 9p.; For other documents in thisseries, see ED 300 319-334 and S0_019 486-492. PUB TYPE. Historical Materials (060) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Biographies; *Colonial History (United States); Legislators; *Military Service; *Public Service; *Revolutionary War (United States) IDENTIFIERS Bicentennial; *King (Rufus); Loyalty; Massachusetts; Military History; *Signers of the United States Constitution; United States Constitution ABSTRACT Throughout a lengthy public career, Rufus King employed his considerable diplomatic and oratorical skills to promote the twin causes of nationalism and civil liberty, fighting in the last decade of his life to extend those liberties to the nation's enslaved black minority. This booklet on King is one in a series on veterans of the Revolutionary War who were also signers of the U.S. Constitution. It. covers: (1) King's struggles to gain education, support his father's family, and overcome accusations-of disloyalty , to the patriot's cause; (2) his military service in the infantry; and (3) his public service to Massachusetts as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and as a U.S. Senator. Personal data about; King and suggestions for further readings are also included. (DJC) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * . * from the original document. * *********************************************************************** oemanannOF EDUCATION Of Re* of Educabonal Ramerch and Improvement. EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 19edocument has been reproduced as received from the person or orparnabon onginatinpit 0 Minor changes have been made to Improve reproduction TOTHE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Points of view or opimonsstated in Outdoor- INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." ment do not necessanly reoresent official OERI position or policy. Introduction In September 1987 theUnited States the signing of the commemorates the bicen nnialof Constitution. Twenty-twoof the thirty-nine signersof the Constitutionwere veterans of the Revolutionary in that conflict made War. Their experiences them deeply conscious ofthe need for a strongcentral government that would prevailagainst its enemies, safeguard the individual yet one that would liberties and the republicanform of government for which they had fought. Thitir solution is enshrinedin the Constitution. The President of the United States is theCommander in Chief of the mffitary forces. But it is nation's the Congress that hasthe power to raise and port those forces, and sup- to declare war. The FoundingFathers established for all time the precedentthat the military, would remain the subordinated to the Congress, servant of the Republic. Thatconcept is the underpinning of the American militaryofficer. These twenty-two leaders in every men were patriots and sense of the word: they foughtthe war, they, signed Constitution, and they the forged the newgovernment. They all wenton to careers of distinguished publicservice in the plishme is should new Republic. Theiraccom- not be forgotten by those whoenjoy the fruits of their labors.or should we forget the fortieth man whose name appearson the Constit tion. The Secretarywas the twenty-third Revolutionary the Co vention, who veteran in continued his serviceto the nation as civil servants. one of its first This pamphlet was prepared by the R.S. ArmyCenter of Military His- tory with the hope that itwill provide you with the American; stimulate background of a great you to learn more about him;and help you enjoy and appreciate thebicentennial. John 0. Marsh, Jr. Secretary of the Army RUFUS KING Massachusetts Rufus King, who represented Massachusetts in the Constitutional Conven- tion, was-a political realist. The leSsons of a classical education and certain tragic events in his family's hiStOry combined to convince him that idealism had to be tempered with vigilance and that a fledgling nation would need a strong government to protect the rights of its citizens while defending its inter- ests in a hostile world. Throughout a :lengthy public career he employed his considerable diplomatic and oratorical skills to promote the twin causes of nationalism and civil liberty, fighting in the last decade of his life to extend those liberties to the nation's enslaved- minority. The Revolutionary War marked a watershed in King's life. Like other major social and political upheavals, the Revolution was accompanied by local breakdowns of Alice and public order. The King family was the victim of one such breakdown, and the incident turned the young patriot into a passion- ate advocate of the rule of law and the rights of the individual. King's military experience would also make him a leading exponent of strong national defense, but one who always demanded that the ation's military forces remain subordi- nated to the needs and purposes of the civilian governthent. King also served as an important transitional figure, passing on to a new generation of leaders ths,icleals that had animated the Revolution. The last of the Founding Fathers to, pass from the scene, he se°d in various political and diplomatic offices until 1826. THE PATRIOT King was born in Scarboro, in that part of Massachusetts which subse- quently became Maine. His father had served as a citizen-soldier during the early stages of Britain's contest for North America, participating in the success- ful assault on the French fortress at Louisbourg, Canada, in 1745. Shortly after that victory he left the Boston area to settle on the northern frontier of Massa- chusetts, where he quickly rose to prominence as a w.-.41-to-do farmer and mer- chant. His ability to dominate affairs in Scarboro provoked considerable envy, an emotion that turned ugly as the rift between the colony and the mother country widened. A strong supporter of Royal authority, the elder King de- fended the unpopular Stamp Act, a measure enacted by Pdrliament to raise revenues in the colonies to defray the cost of the French and Indian War. In retaliation the local patriots, dubbed Sons of Liberty, ransacked the family's home in 1766. Unintimidated, the father rethis Loyalist sympathies, pro- yoking yet another confrontation in 1774. This timea force of -local militia visited the King hot= and demanded a public recanting.The humiliation and strain caused.hy this incident led directly to the old captain's deathand,inStilled in his son a lifelong passiOn for law and order and fora society controlled by rational men. Rufus King was the first member of his family to benefit froma forinal: education. Thanks in great part to the persistenceof his stepmother, he attended' a'boarding school, where he received the rudiments ofa classical education, and then Harvard College. There hegraduated first in his class in 1777 before. moving on to Newburyport to study law under TheophilusParsons, who later became Massachusetts' chief justice and one of themost important Federalist theoreticians and philosophers. King also joineda men's club in-Boston whoSe members would form the nucleus of what eventually becarke thestate's Feder- alist party. Traditionally, young men in Massachusetts deferred military serviceuntil completing their education. King was no exception. In additionto his scholastic obligations, King faced severe financial problems. His father'ssudden death left the family's affairs in shambles, and Kingwas forCed to support his step- mother and' the younger children. He organized theestate and invested his share in the Massachusetts lumber trade. But his failureto enlist caused tongues to wag. Scarboro's local patriots continued to harbor doubts about the family's loyalties. Given the father's outspoken support for the old regime,they espe- cially questioned the son's commitment to thecause. King, who had become an ardent patriot during his years at Harvard, was particularly incensed when charges of disloyalty were leveled against him in thesummer of 1777, but he allowed the talk to continue a full year before he suspended his legaltraining and donned uniform. This steadfastness in settlingmatters in an orderly fashion marked the measure of the young scholar, justas it would come to characterize his -later political career. THE SOLDIER Actually, during this period King considered himself first andforemost a New Englander. He stood ready to sacrifice all for his native region, but he felt no nationalistic commitment to rush to the defense ofthe other colonies. Although the Revolution began in New England in 1775,events and strategic decisions had shifted the military action to other locationsrelatively early in the war. Strategists in London decided that oppositionto the Crown was strongest in the four New England states and concentrated insteadon trying to regain control of the middle colonies, where they believed loyaltieswere more evenly divided. The British evacuated Boston in March 1776 and captured New York in the summer, intending to use that importantport city as their 5 Oil, by Charles Willson Peale (1818), Independence National 'Historical Park. main base. New England was left to endure the economic hardships caused by a naval blcckade avid frequent raids on coastal Cities. When the chance arose in 1778 to drive the last of the enemy from New England, King quickly volunteered. The military'picture now had changed considerably. The American victory at Saratoga in the fall of 1777 had freed New England from the threat of attack from Canada. France's entry into the war led the British to withdraw from Philadelphia, allowing Washington to Ia concentrate most of the Continental Army near New York. Several of his regu- lar brigades were now available to reinforce New England's citizen-soldiers, and the appearance of a French naval squadron off the American coast pro- vided the occasion to attack the British at Newport. Massachusetts mobilized its militia for a campaign organized by Major General John Sullivan.
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