"Utah Senator" William H. King Hand Signed TLS Dated 1934 Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction "Utah Senator" William H. King Hand Signed TLS Dated 1934.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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William Henry King
(June 3, 1863 – November 27, 1949) was an
American
lawyer, politician, and jurist from
Salt Lake City
,
Utah
. As a Democrat, King represented Utah in the
United States Senate
from 1917 until 1941.
King was born in
Fillmore
,
Utah Territory
to Josephine (née Henry) and William King.
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He graduated from
Brigham Young Academy
in
Provo, Utah
and attended the
University of Deseret
(now University of Utah) in
Salt Lake City
. He served as a missionary of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
in Great Britain from 1880 to 1883. After holding local offices and serving two terms in the territorial legislature, he graduated from the law department of the
University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor. He later joined the Utah bar and practiced law. He held other territorial offices and was appointed as an associate justice of the
Utah Supreme Court
, serving between 1894 and 1896. After Utah became a state in 1896, King was elected to the
United States House of Representatives
and served in the
55th Congress
from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1899. He was not nominated for a second term, but when his replacement,
B. H. Roberts
, was denied his seat because he was a
polygamist
, King was elected to complete Roberts's term. He served from April 2, 1900 to March 3, 1901. He ran for the same position in
1900
and again in
1902
, but lost both times. King was elected to the United States Senate four times, serving between March 4, 1917 and January 3, 1941. He failed to win renomination in 1940. In 1918 and 1919, he served on the
Overman Committee
, which investigated seditious pro-German activity during World War I and
Bolshevik
-inspired anti-Americanism in the months following the war's end. He served as the
President pro tempore of the Senate
from 1940-41 during the
76th Congress
. King remained in Washington, D.C., where he practiced law until April 1947. He returned to Utah and died there in 1949.