Dan King (physician)

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Dan King (1791-1864) was an American physician, born in Mansfield, Oh. He studied medicine there, practiced at Preston, Conn., and afterward removed to Charlestown, R. I. Dr. king was actively interested in political affairs of Rhode Island and served in the State Legislature from 1828 to 1834. He supported the suffrage movement, of which Thomas Wilson Dorr became the head; but he did not sanction Dorr,s headlong conduct after the suffrage party had failed to get control of the Legislature. The Narragansett Indians, who were in a reduced condition, found an earnest helper in Dr. King. As a joint commissioner for the State, he investigated the condition of the Indians, and his report resulted in the establishment of an Indian school. His publications include a Life and Times of Thomas Wilson Dorr (1859).

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