Background
King, Andrew was born on March 20, 1812 in Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia).
United States representative judge politician
King, Andrew was born on March 20, 1812 in Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia).
Studied law.
King notably was the first congressperson to propose a nationwide ban on interracial marriage in the United States, which he did in 1871. King proposed an amendment to the US constitution to ban interracial marriage because he feared that the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868 to give equal civil rights to the emancipated ex-slaves (the Freedmen) as part of the process of Reconstruction, would render laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional.
Member Missouri Senate, 1846, Missouri Ho. Member United States Ho.