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The Missouri Compromise debates stirred suspicions by slavery interests that the underlying purpose of the Tallmadge Amendments had little to do with opposition to the expansion of slavery. The accusation was first leveled in the House by the Republican anti-restrictionist John Holmes from the District of Maine. He suggested that Senator Rufus ...
King was born on March 24, 1755, in Scarborough, which was then part of Massachusetts but is now in Maine. [1] He was a son of Isabella (Bragdon) and Richard King, a prosperous farmer, merchant, lumberman, and sea captain [1] who had settled at Dunstan Landing in Scarborough, near Portland, Maine, and had made a modest fortune by the time Rufus was born.
Rufus King (F) Elected January 8, 1820, and qualified January 25, 1820 Maryland (1) Alexander C. Hanson (F) Died April 23, 1819 William Pinkney (DR) Elected December 21, 1819 Virginia (2) John W. Eppes (DR) Resigned December 4, 1819 James Pleasants (DR) Elected December 10, 1819 Alabama (2) New seats Alabama was admitted to the Union December ...
As President, he oversaw the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state in exchange for admitting Maine as a free state and banning slavery above the parallel 36°30′ north. Monroe supported sending freed slaves to the new country of Liberia; its capital, Monrovia, is named after him.
William Rufus DeVane King (April 7, 1786 – April 18, 1853) was an American politician and diplomat. He was the 13th vice president of the United States from March 4 until his death in April 1853. Earlier he had served as a U.S. representative from North Carolina and a senator from Alabama .
The Tallmadge Amendment was a proposed amendment to a bill regarding the admission of the Territory of Missouri as a state, under which Missouri would be admitted as a free state. The amendment was submitted in the U.S. House of Representatives on February 13, 1819, by James Tallmadge Jr. , a Democratic-Republican from New York , and Charles ...
Missouri Territory at-large: Rufus Easton: Served throughout the first session; Scott presented credentials at the beginning of the second session and was contested by Easton John Scott: December 2, 1816 Illinois Territory at-large: Benjamin Stephenson: Term ended September 3, 1816 Nathaniel Pope: December 2, 1816 Virginia 23: John Clopton (DR)
Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Missouri as a slave state but excluded slavery in the remaining territories north of the parallel 36°30′ north. In foreign policy, Monroe and Secretary of State Adams acquired East Florida from Spain with the Adams–Onís Treaty, realizing a long-term goal of Monroe and his predecessors.