page_title: Rufus King (lawyer)
section_title: University activities
hierarchical_section_title: Rufus King (lawyer) / Career / University activities
caption_attribution_description: English: The bookplate of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey (1702) The Privileges of the House of Lords and Commons Argued and Stated, in Two Conferences between both Houses. April 19, and 22, 1671. To which is Added a Discourse, wherein the Rights of the House of Lords are Truly Asserted. With Learned Remarks on the Seeming Arguments, and Pretended Precedents, Offered at that Time against their Lordships. Written by the Right Honourable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late Lord Privy-Seal, London: Printed and sold by J. Nutt, near Stationers-Hall OCLC: 642442297. The book was thus previously owned by the Cincinnati Law Library. The bookplate features a bust of Rufus King (30 May 1817 – 25 March 1891) in a niche surrounded by bookshelves. King was the President of the University of Cincinnati from 1860 to 1869, and the Dean of the Cincinnati Law School (now the University of Cincinnati College of Law) from 1875 to 1880.
context_page_description: Rufus King was a lawyer from Cincinnati, Ohio who served as Dean of the Cincinnati Law School and president of the University of Cincinnati in the late nineteenth century. He also served as president of a convention that met to write a new constitution for the state of Ohio, and authored a history of the state of Ohio.
context_section_description: In 1859, King was elected by city council a director of McMicken University. On December 30 of that year, he was selected president of the board, and was re-elected each year until the name of the school was changed to the University of Cincinnati in 1870. He was then president of that board until 1877.
  Rufus King's father was one of the founders of the Cincinnati Law School. Rufus King taught at the school, and was Dean of the Faculty from 1875 to 1880. He resigned the deanship, but continued to teach constitutional law and the law of real property until his death.
caption: A bookplate designed in 1903 by Edwin Davis French for the Cincinnati Law Library featuring a bust of King
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