David S. King

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David Sjodahl King (Born June 20, 1917) was a representative from Utah. He was a Democrat.

King was born in Salt Lake City in 1917. He graduated from the University of Utah at Salt Lake City in 1937, and Georgetown University Law School. He was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Congresses between January 3, 1959 and January 3, 1963. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1962. He ran for the Senate but lost. He was elected to the 89th Congress. He ran for reelection in 1966 but lost. He was appointed United States Ambassador to the Malagasy Republic and to Mauritius in January 1967 and in May 1968, respectively, and served in those two positions concurrently until August 1969.

During the 1970s and 1980's, King practiced law in Washington, DC, and served as an alternate director at the World Bank. He retired in 1986 to devote time serving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. From 1986-1989, he served as mission president of the Church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and from 1990-1993 he served as the president of the Washington, DC Temple in Kensington, MD. He currently (2005) serves as a Patriarch for his church. King is a resident of Kensington, MD, where he lives with his wife of over 55 years, Rosalie King. They are the parents of eight children.

His father, William H. King, was a Senator from Utah.