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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Horatio King (1811–1897)

King, Horatio. An American statesman, publicist, and writer of travels; born at Paris, ME, June 21, 1811; died at Washington, May 20, 1897. He was Postmaster-General of the United States in 1861. He wrote ‘Sketches of Travel’ (1878); and ‘Turning on the Light: A Survey of the Administration of Buchanan.’