Podcasts about Rufus King

Welcome to Mysteries to Die ForI am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and producer. This is a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you in the heart of a mystery. All stories are structured to challenge you to beat the detective to the solution. Jack and I perform these live, front to back, no breaks, no fakes, no retakes.The rules for law and order create the boundaries for civil co-existence and, ideally, the backdrops for individuals, families, and companies to grow and thrive. Breaking these rules puts civil order at risk. And while murder is the Big Daddy of crimes, codified ordinances across municipal divisions, counties, states, and countries show the nearly endless ways there are to create mayhem. This season, we put our detective skills to the test. This is Season 8, Anything but Murder. This is Episode 9, missing person is the featured crime. This is The Florida Man Cometh by Jim WinterThis week's story come to us from Jim Winter, author of the Holland Bay series, which includes Holland Bay and The Dogs of Beaumont Heights. Like his series, this story takes place in what he calls “the Celloverse,” set in and around the fictional City of Monticello. DELIBERATIONTeasdale's early morning response to an abandoned school bus has turned into a scavenger hunt for a Florida man gone AWOL. Which one of the three party animals is missing Florida man James Floren? Trashcan Man, who is now unnaturally baldUnicorn Man, who bounced his head off at least one windshieldPacer Man, who managed to get a car stuck on a roller coasterHere are the facts as Teasdale sees them:A school bus and driver were borrowed from the school district by Mayor Nate Keller for a fishing party on Saturday. To Keller's knowledge the bus was returned with a full tank of gas. The school bus wasn't returned to the school district but left on Rufus King's lawn. The driver, Charlie Tobin, is missing.Searching the bus, Teasdale discovered a stack of neatly folded clothes on the driver's seat and an annoyed alligator chained in the aisle.Before being abandoned, the bus was parked at The Waffle House. The manager said a drunk Larry Molnek, a sales manager for a local car dealer, came in with a man he didn't know. The manager tossed Molnek out for fighting. Either Molnek or the stranger head butted a windshield before leaving in the bus.Teasdale and Deputy Swenson received a BOLO Florida Man James Floren. The recently AWOL husband has family in Ohio, including now respected attorney Joe Reese. As teens, Floren and Reese were busted for breaking into the amusement park to climb the B-52 coaster.Inside the closed amusement park, Teasdale and Swenson discovered a naked man in a trash can. He was pale, white, and newly bald. Next, they found a man trapped in a Pacer stuck on the B-52 coaster. He was pale beneath his tan complexion. -Lastly, Swenson discovered a man in one of the bathrooms. He had a bloody, black-and-blue bump in the middle of his forehead. Which is the Florida Man cometh? About Missing PersonsSince 1975, the FBI has maintained the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) missing person and unidentified person statistics. According the 2023 statistics report, the files are retained indefinitely until the person is located or the record is cancelled by the entering agency. Data is collected on missing persons with disabilities including senility, where circumstances indicate the disappearance was non-voluntary and/or physical safety is in danger, where catastrophe is involved, and juveniles. As of December 31, 2023, NCIC contained 96,955 active missing person records. Within the calendar year, 563,389 records were entered and 563,644 records cleared. Of the active...

This time of the year, we are bound to see plenty of yard signs around our neighborhood. What if our favorite also-rans of years past had yard signs-- including very antiquated figures like Aaron Burr or Rufus King? Such is the nature of Nina Katchadourian's fascinating new art piece, Monument to the Unelected. In this episode we enjoy a lively discussion about art, history, and public space.

S2E17 - Oh, how we wish the queerest president wasn't one of our nation's worst! So gay, so terrible, y'all. Trent and Marissa talk out Buchanan's long-term relationship with Rufus King, the many scandals of his administration, and his chronic inaction in the lead up to the Civil War. Plus, gallons of oysters, Russian czarinas, slippery leather pumps, and a D.C. love shack! This is the end of Season Two, but we'll be back in the spring with Lincoln and his (allegedly) beautiful thighs!  Email pardonme.presidentialpod@gmail.com to contact us or issue corrections (with sources, please)!   Produced and Edited by Trent Thomson and Marissa Macy Original music by Noise of Approval Graphic design by Darcey Mckinney   Sources The Worst President – The Story of James Buchanan by Gary Boulard Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King by Thomas J. Balcerski https://open.spotify.com/episode/3xLd0ePyZ4m0SF2Kw6Nmym?si=ea13bea683c9451f https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/james-buchanan-why-is-he-considered-americas-worst-president#:~:text=Buchanan%20supported%20the%20theory%20that,wedge%20into%20the%20Democratic%20Party. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/president-james-buchanan-directly-influenced-outcome-dred-scott-decision-180962329/ https://www.battlefields.org/learn/topics/john-browns-harpers-ferry-raid

“All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.” United States Constitution, Article I, Section 7 Review the origins and debate over Article I, Section 7 of the United States Constitution, which provides that any bill raising revenue must originate in the House of Representatives. These bills were often referred to as “money bills” and this clause today is often referred to as the “Origination Clause.” This provision addresses the authority of the federal government to tax, as well as to raise revenues and funds from other sources. Article I, Section 7 ensures that taxation and similar means of raising money must first be proposed by the House of Representatives — which is composed of the most immediate representatives of the People. The Origination Clause preserves the keystone of “no taxation without representation.” The Senate has the authority to amend or concur in amendments to such bills, just like any other bill. This ensures the wisdom and experience of the Senate can influence these important matters, without allowing them to cower or coerce the House, and prevents an aristocracy from taking hold. Highlights include the Constitutional Convention, House of Representatives, Senate, Governor Edmund Randolph, Flag Day, Virginia Plan a/k/a Randolph Plan a/k/a Randolph Resolutions, Articles of Confederation, William Paterson, New Jersey Plan a/k/a Paterson Resolutions a/k/a Paterson Plan, Elbridge Gerry, Declaration of Independence, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, taxation without representation, Pierce Butler, French and Indian War a/k/a the Seven Years War, First Continental Congress, British Constitution, James Madison, House of Commons, Rufus King, George Read, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Roger Sherman, Charles Pinckney, James Wilson, Oliver Ellsworth, Robert Yates, Benjamin Franklin, Gunning Bedford, Luther Martin, George Mason, William Davie, John Rutledge, Abraham Baldwin, Grand Compromise, Gouverneur Morris, Hugh Williamson, Bastille Day, House of Lords, Federalist Papers, Anti-Federalist Papers, Federalist Paper No. 58, Federalist Paper No. 66, Tench Coxe, Civis Rusticus (Simple Citizen), James Iredell, North Carolina Ratifying Convention, and more. To learn more about the Constitution & Patriot Week, visit www.PatriotWeek.org. Our resources include videos, a TV series, blogs, lesson plans, and more. Read the entire original, unamended Constitution here: https://patriotweek.org/2021/07/27/the-original-constitution-september-17/ Check out Judge Michael Warren's book America's Survival Guide, How to Stop America's Impending Suicide by Reclaiming Our First Principles and History at www.AmericasSurvivalGuide.com, amazon, or other major on-line retailers. Join us! SUPPORT: Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-warren9/support [donations go the nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) Patriot Week Foundation] --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-warren9/support

This week's episode of the 53206 Cast is all about running. Chris Ponteri, who has run every street in the city of Milwaukee, Brian Hutchinson who is currently on a 9 year running streak and creator on instagram @mkejogwalker, along with Ashley Frahm, the Rufus King runner, join the podcast to talk about the surprising benefits of running in the city of Milwaukee.

A few months ago we and a caller who was of the opinion that "only a few" guys actually "did anything" at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The idea is one that many people might have, simply because they just don't know anything about anybody except the few names that bubble to the top of the historical bottle. But if you uncork that bottle, you get a wonderful bouquet of ideas and of people that you have never heard anything about before. Sitting in that room in Philadelphia was a man who was one of the calming and guiding hands on the tiller. When the "four masters" gathered as the committee of style*, it was this man, William Samuel Johnson, who chaired the committee that would oversee the final draft of the Constitution. He was a man who had come late to the American Revolution. In fact, he had once been arrested by the Patriots for "communicating with the enemy." Once American Independence was declared, he was fully on board with his new country. It shouldn't have been a surprise. He came from a legacy of inventing new ways of doing things. In fact, you could make the argument that it was his father who actually invented America... *Gouverneur Morris, James Madison, Rufus King and Alexander Hamilton Links: America Begins: How Samuel Johnson Created America (JAR) Life and Correspondence of Samuel Johnson, D.D. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/plausibly-live/message

A few months ago we and a caller who was of the opinion that "only a few" guys actually "did anything" at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The idea is one that many people might have, simply because they just don't know anything about anybody except the few names that bubble to the top of the historical bottle. But if you uncork that bottle, you get a wonderful bouquet of ideas and of people that you have never heard anything about before. Sitting in that room in Philadelphia was a man who was one of the calming and guiding hands on the tiller. When the "four masters" gathered as the committee of style*, it was this man, William Samuel Johnson, who chaired the committee that would oversee the final draft of the Constitution. He was a man who had come late to the American Revolution. In fact, he had once been arrested by the Patriots for communicating with the enemy. Once American Independence was declared, he was fully on board with his new country. It shouldn't have been a surprise. He came from a legacy of inventing new ways of doing things. In fact, you could make the argument that it was his father who actually invented America... *Gouverneur Morris, James Madison, Rufus King and Alexander Hamilton

David Gary, curator at the American Philosophical Society, on King Manor, in Jamaica, Queens, the home of Alexander Hamilton's "right hand man," the influential Federalist and early antislavery leader Rufus King.

With special guest Dr. David Gary.  Rufus King is one of the most obscure of the also-rans, but he was an active part of countless key moments in early American political history: he fought in the Revolution, helped frame the U.S. Constitution, implemented the Jay Treaty, helped figure out the Northwest Ordinance, and was one of the first prominent anti-slavery American politicians. He was also the final presidential candidate fielded by the dying Federalist Party. With help from our guest, we'll explore how King's career mirrors the rise and fall of one of America's first political parties. 

When I was first introduced to George Walker through 88Nine Radio Milwaukee Host Tarik Moody, I had no idea George was a student at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee. I thought for sure this was an educator trying to bring esports to his school. George has worked with school staff to enter his high school, this spring in the midst of a pandemic lockdown, as a member of the Wisconsin High School Esports Association. This is my first student conversation on the podcast. -- George Walker Jr. (LinkedIn) George Walker Sr. (LinkedIn) -- Esports is organized competitive video games allowing schools to redefine their athletic culture, diversify opportunities for student participation, promote physical and mental health, increase collegiate scholarship pathways, and play games! We cannot forget the importance of play! James O'Hagan (LinkedIn // Twitter) is the Founder and Host of The Academy of Esports podcast. The Academy of Esports (Website // Twitter) You may email any questions or topic suggestions to contact@taoesports.com. -- Music provided Royalty Free "8 Bit Adventure!" Querky Fun Game Music by HeatleyBros iTunes: https://goo.gl/M3b16f Spotify: https://goo.gl/5SbVuk License: https://goo.gl/jadB5E Twitter: https://goo.gl/fKqyrj Facebook: https://goo.gl/PrsTvS --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/taoesports/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/taoesports/support

The 13th Vice President of the United States remains obscure. Where King's name does come up, it's often with the wrong picture. Or he's confused with Rufus King.  According to our guest, Thomas Balcerski, Associate Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut University, he should be in the discussion with Clay and Calhoun and Webster and others. Balcerski is author of Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King (Oxford University Press, 2019). We get into the Presidential Ratings Game too.  

This week on the pod, we welcome Wendell Willis, Executive Director of the Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation – and, to Mac's delight, fellow Northwestern alum. The crew talks about Wendell's own artistic upbringing, his varied career in business and nonprofit work, and his vision for how the arts should be integrated into education and civic infrastructure.  Mac, David, and Lindsay kick it off with a reflection on democratizing art through listening to a 1996 clip of Charlie Rose with Bowie (#rip) and Schnabel talking about the art of Basquiat (1:20), then visiting Jane Fonda's Golden Globes acceptance speech (15:15).  Wendell's interview starts at 23:27: moving to Milwaukee, growing up with artistic family members, and graduating from Rufus King (24:15); going to Northwestern and studying arts and business (26:52); exploring careers in the business and nonprofit worlds (34:10); art as a tool to look at business problems differently (36:25); scaling up Ways to Work and building great teams (38:42); the role of arts and culture in public education (44:10); arts integration across subjects (49:40); changing the narrative of why the arts are important to our communities (54:40); civic pride in Milwaukee (59:00); Czar of Arts and Culture turn (1:02).  And finally, we ask Wendell for some dish on Esteban – a Public Ally currently with Imagine MKE and formerly with MPS Foundation! Follow http://www.mpsfdn.org/ (Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation) on https://www.facebook.com/mpsfdn (Facebook), https://www.linkedin.com/company/mpsfoundation/ (LinkedIn), and https://twitter.com/mpsfdn (Twitter).  Music Transitions: “Tennessee,” Capitol Drive  E216 Ephemera  https://charlierose.com/videos/12092 (David Bowie & Julian Schnabel on Charlie Rose)  https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/28/entertainment/jane-fonda-golden-globes-speech-full-text-trnd/index.html (Jane Fonda at the Golden Globes)  https://www.designboom.com/art/what-is-nft-why-non-fungible-art-marketplace-millions-04-06-2021/ (Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Crypto Art)  https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/03/kings-of-leon-to-release-album-as-nft-.html (Kings of Leon NFT Album)   https://defector.com/nba-top-shot-story/ (NBA Top Shot)  Support this podcast

This week on the pod, we welcome Wendell Willis, Executive Director of the Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation – and, to Mac’s delight, fellow Northwestern alum. The crew talks about Wendell’s own artistic upbringing, his varied career in business and nonprofit work, and his vision for how the arts should be integrated into education and civic infrastructure.  Mac, David, and Lindsay kick it off with a reflection on democratizing art through listening to a 1996 clip of Charlie Rose with Bowie (#rip) and Schnabel talking about the art of Basquiat (1:20), then visiting Jane Fonda’s Golden Globes acceptance speech (15:15).  Wendell’s interview starts at 23:27: moving to Milwaukee, growing up with artistic family members, and graduating from Rufus King (24:15); going to Northwestern and studying arts and business (26:52); exploring careers in the business and nonprofit worlds (34:10); art as a tool to look at business problems differently (36:25); scaling up Ways to Work and building great teams (38:42); the role of arts and culture in public education (44:10); arts integration across subjects (49:40); changing the narrative of why the arts are important to our communities (54:40); civic pride in Milwaukee (59:00); Czar of Arts and Culture turn (1:02).  And finally, we ask Wendell for some dish on Esteban – a Public Ally currently with Imagine MKE and formerly with MPS Foundation! Follow http://www.mpsfdn.org/ (Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation) on https://www.facebook.com/mpsfdn (Facebook), https://www.linkedin.com/company/mpsfoundation/ (LinkedIn), and https://twitter.com/mpsfdn (Twitter).  Music Transitions: “Tennessee,” Capitol Drive  E216 Ephemera  https://charlierose.com/videos/12092 (David Bowie & Julian Schnabel on Charlie Rose)  https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/28/entertainment/jane-fonda-golden-globes-speech-full-text-trnd/index.html (Jane Fonda at the Golden Globes)  https://www.designboom.com/art/what-is-nft-why-non-fungible-art-marketplace-millions-04-06-2021/ (Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Crypto Art)  https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/03/kings-of-leon-to-release-album-as-nft-.html (Kings of Leon NFT Album)   https://defector.com/nba-top-shot-story/ (NBA Top Shot)  Support this podcast

Ken Hunt joined Brown's coaching staff in 2012 and coaches the men's and women's horizontal jumps, vertical jumps, and multi-events. Hunt was promoted to the position of Associate Head Coach of Track and Field/Anne Rothenberg Assistant Coaching Chair in September of 2020. 

Entering into his eighth season in 2019-20, the Bears have made stellar improvements under Hunt's direction, highlighted by four NCAA All-Americans in each of the past four years consisting of Carly Paul (2019 - heptathlon, 2018 - High Jump), Shanelle DeJournett (2017 - High Jump) and O'Sha Williams in (2016 - Triple Jump). Hunt has coached five total All-Americans at Brown, as well as 47 performers onto Brown University's All-Time Top Ten list, ten school records, and ten NCAA Regional qualifiers.

Hunt was named the Northeast Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) for the 2019 outdoor season. He guided his athletes to 51 of the team's 59 points at the Ivy League Championships and coached Carly Paul to the all-time Ivy League record in the heptathlon at 5,632 points and was a national qualifier in the event. In addition, Hunt's long jumpers went 1-2-3 at Heps and four long and one high jumper all advanced to the NCAA East Preliminary meet, while the long jump quad ranked fourth in the nation.

Hunt coached Carly Paul to a standout season in 2017-18, as she captured the Ivy League pentathlon and heptathlon league titles and broke four school records over the course of both track & field seasons. Williams and Paul were named the recipients of the Marjorie Brown Smith Award as Brown's outstanding female varsity athlete of the year in 2016 and 2018, respectively.  Prior to Brown, Hunt spent the 2011-2012 season at LSU, having a hand in the team's NCAA National Outdoor Track Championship and 12 NCAA Individual Qualifiers. Prior to his year at LSU, Hunt coached the sprints, hurdles and jumps at Georgia Southern University. During the 2010 season, his event group won four individual titles and scored 163 of the team's 184 points at the Southern Conference Indoor and Outdoor Championships.He coached Lynndsey Hyter, who achieved Southern Conference history as the first woman to win the Indoor Pentathlon three straight times as well as three times. Hyter recorded the second-highest point total in the championships. Every student-athletes who compete in jumps recorded personal bests during the 2010-2011 indoor season. As a result, Hunt was a finalist for the 2010 NCAA Southeastern Region Assistant Coach of the Year. Prior to his time at Georgia Southern, Hunt coached at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where his athletes set SIUE records in the pentathlon, long jump and pole vault. Hunt was also an assistant track and field coach at Marquette University. During his two years with the Golden Eagles, Hunt coached 10 Big East qualifiers and 4 NCAA Regional qualifiers. Prior to his career in college coaching, Hunt led the track program at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In his four years as head coach at Rufus King, Hunt coached 100 all-conference athletes, 20 state champions and 15 all-state athletes. He built the team from an initial roster of 45 to more than 150 participants. Hunt started his collegiate competition with the University of Wisconsin before finishing up at UW-Milwaukee. Hunt finished his collegiate competition having set the University and the Horizon League indoor and outdoor triple jump records. Hunt has a bachelor's degree from UW-Milwaukee in History and a USATF Level 2 coaching certificate for jumps. Follow his story and the Brown track and field team @brown_jumps on IG or email him at Kenneth_hunt@brown.edu --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bemoretoday/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bemoretoday/support

Wquinton “Q” Smith was a standout football and basketball player at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee before becoming a point guard for the University of Wisconsin's Men's Basketball team. Q joined the SGG podcast, where we discussed: 1. What Rufus King is known for: academics and basketball. 2. The “Wall of Fame” at King. 3. The neighborhood surrounding King High School. 4. What makes King such a good school. “Everybody takes pride in it.” 5. Playing football in the Neighborhood Children's Sports League growing up. “It prepared me.” 6. Why Q nearly quit football after his freshman year of high school. 7. What Q didn't like about football. 8. Sub-par facilities and equipment for the football team at King. 9. How King's identity as an academic and basketball school may have served as a barrier to the team's football program. 10. “If you build it, they will come.” 11. Why some kids at King couldn't go out for football. 12. Dwindling football participation across the country. 13. Building character and friendships through football. 14. “Football helped me branch out and meet different people…Once I started playing football, I started opening up to people and trusting people more. And I brought that with me to UW-Madison.” 15. Ensuring all kids opportunities for out of school sport development.

We talk with Emma Stratton, the Executive Director of the American Independence Museum in Exeter, New Hampshire. We hear about Paul Revere's first important ride--to Fort William and Mary in Newcastle, and about the Museum's treasures--a Dunlap broadside of the Declaration, notes on the Constitution by Nicholas Gilman and Rufus King, and a tavern where George Washington was entertained--and where the Museum hosts beer and history events. And also the Society of the Cincinnati, and John Stark--who coined New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free, or Die."

Article 7The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.DONE in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In WITNESS whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,George Washington, President and deputy from VirginiaNew Hampshire: John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman.Massachusetts: Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King.Connecticut: Wm. Saml. Johnson, Roger Sherman.New York: Alexander Hamilton.New Jersey: Wil: Livingston, David Brearley, Wm. Paterson, Jona. Dayton.Pennsylvania: B. Franklin, Robt. Morris, Tho: Fitzsimons, James Wilson, Thomas Mifflin, Geo. Clymer, Jared Ingersoll, Gouv: Morris.Delaware: Geo: Read, John Dickinson, Jaco: Broom, Gunning Bedford, Jun'r, Richard Bassett.Maryland: James M'Henry, Danl Carroll, Dan: of St. Thos. Jenifer.Virginia: John Blair, James Madison, Jr.North Carolina: Wm. Blount, Hu. Williamson, Rich'd Dobbs Spaight.South Carolina: J. Rutledge, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Pierce Butler.Georgia: William Few, Abr. BaldwinAttest, William Jackson, Secretary.

 This week our guest is JAR contributor Keith Muchowski. Although he is often overlooked, New York’s Rufus King played a vital role in America’s founding generation. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com.

It's time to move onto the Big Fat Presidential Candidates for 1816! The first thing we're gonna do is check in on our old federalist candidate friend, Rufus King, and see how "American Revolution Redux" treated him! If you've already heard the Rufus King story and just want to get to the new information, that can be found at the 11:54 mark! Become a Patron!

We're looking at the second prezzy wezzy candidate for 1812, and we've discussed him multiple times before, so you'll want to check out the 10:24 mark for new stuff! (And there isn't much. C'mon Rufus!! DO SOMETHING ALREADY! Don't fret though, next week is gonna be WILD.) Become a Patron!

Tenia Fisher of FEAR MKE and Social X is in the studio for episode 3. When it comes to running, it's been something Tenia has been excelling at since she was a kid. We kick off the first half of the show learning about Tenia's running journey, from being a state champ at Rufus King, to being named athlete of the year three years in a row at UW-Milwaukee. But every athlete has highs and lows. Tenia talks about going from training for Olympic qualifiers to her to fall-out with running and then ultimately how FEAR MKE brought running back into her life. As the Director of Health and Wellness at Social X and a Lead Captain of FEAR, Tenia is giving back to the sport and city that shaped her life by breaking down barriers in Milwaukee for runners of color.

What we have here is a rather uneventful REBROADCAST of Rufus King's VP candidacy. Let's face it. The only reason this dude is still a VP Candidate is cuz the Federalists are so freaking defeated that they aren't even trying to shake things up. Anyways, the NEW STUFF is at the 9:51 mark!   Become a Patron!

Nate and Bobby go spelunking to the 81-year-old Rufus King High School on this week's Urban Spelunking.https://onmilwaukee.com/history/articles/rufus-king-urban-spelunking.html

Nate and Bobby go spelunking to the 81-year-old Rufus King High School on this week's Urban Spelunking.https://onmilwaukee.com/history/articles/rufus-king-urban-spelunking.html

In this rerelease, Thom dives into the election of 1816, the last mewling death cry of the Federalist Party and its standardbearer, Rufus King. 

In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” we speak to David Gary about King Manor, in Jamaica, Queens. The author of a dissertation on Rufus King -- an influential federalist who served as Alexander Hamilton’s "right-hand man," and later became an important anti-slavery leader -- Gary is a former Gotham Center Fellow and holds a PhD from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is now a curator at the American Philosophical Society. For more podcasts like this, and for more Gotham Center programming, visit us at GothamCenter.org and sign up to our mail list. Thanks for listening.

We're looking at VP candidate #6 for the 1804 election while quietly acknowledging the fact he is both a Street Fighter and a Tekken character. And also admiring his wife. Because his wife was really really cool. Become a Patron!

This episode, the inaugural episode of the Second Decade podcast, details the bizarre (by modern standards) political situation Americans faced in 1816. The Democratic-Republican Party, hoping to score its fifth Presidential election win in a row, ran yet another Virginian, James Monroe. It looked to be a cakewalk, considering that the opposition party, the Federalists, was in full meltdown mode after they insisted on showing the country just how much they hated the War of 1812 with a disastrous and ill-advised confab in Hartford. But the dull Presidential race wasn't the real political story in 1816. There was an epic disaster in the making at the Congressional level, and voters rose in revolt like no other time in American history. In this episode you'll meet James Monroe, college drop-out and heir apparent to the Virginia dynasty; Rufus King, the last man to wear pantyhose on the floor of the U.S. Senate; and you'll learn why getting sloshed on the Fourth of July was, in 1816, every American's patriotic duty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Getting started on Rutledge's' draft of the Constitution, some members noticed that there are some very odd things contained in the document. Rufus King of Massachusetts can keep quiet no longer. He has agreed to things so far because he believes that a strong central government must emerge from the Convention. But what he sees on paper now, is a nation divided by avarice and slavery. Either what Rutledge has written must change or the three-fifths must be eliminated. He won't say the word, but the room senses he means abolition. Gouverneur Morris has no such limits. He will rail once more, passionately and deeply about the evils and morality of slavery. The Convention listens, then gets down to work. Realizing that the entire room is unwieldy and that the best and fastest work gets done in committee, they form several such groups, including, the committee on all the stuff we forgot or are too busy to work on...

For some weeks, Gouverneur Morris of New York has been absent from the Convention. Now, at the lowest point of the proceedings, he arrives with a single purpose: to derail the 3/5th's compromise. The tensions rise as the Slave States begin to believe that there are those, "within or without doors" who mean to take their slaves away. This will never be acceptable to the Slave States, and indeed, there is at least one non-Slave State that admits that it feels the same way. The debate boils down to one simple thing, do we unite with slavery, or do we dissolve without it? Morris will attempt to force the latter, but like all others before him, he will fail. When the dust settles, the Connecticut Compromise passes, and the Convention begins to move forward again.

Join comic historian Thom Woodley as he discusses the losers of presidential history - this time Senator Rufus King (1816), the last candidate of the doomed Federalist Party, who didn't even want to be.