Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Rufus Young King

Full Name: Rufus Young King
Birth date: July 12, 1830
Death date: February 8, 1911

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .

Census of 1880 - R.Y. King, Belton, Bell County, age 50, born circa 1830, mercantile drummer, wife M.C. King, and daughter Lucy W. King. FamilySearch .
Confederate States Army, Captain, Company A, 8th Regiment, Texas Cavalry. Military grave marker, Rufus Young King (1828-1911), portrait, burial in North Belton Cemetery, Belton, Bell County. Find a Grave .
Portrait and biographical sketch, Rufus Young King, pp. 320-321. Born 7/12/1830 in Florence, Alabama. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Biographical sketch, Hon. Rufus Y. King. Born 1830 in Florence, Alabama. A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas, 1893, pp. 573-574, crediting Lena Armstrong Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .