{{Short description|American politician (1917–2009)}} {{Other people|David King}} {{Infobox officeholder | birth_name = David Sjodahl King | name = David S. King | image = File:David Sjodahl King circa 1950.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|06|20}} | birth_place = [[Salt Lake City, Utah]], United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|05|05|1917|06|20}} | death_place = [[Kensington, Maryland]], United States | state = [[Utah]] | district = [[Utah's 2nd congressional district|2nd]] | term_start1 = January 3, 1965 | term_end1 = January 3, 1967 | preceded1 = [[Sherman P. Lloyd]] | succeeded1 = [[Sherman P. Lloyd]] | term_start2 = January 3, 1959 | term_end2 = January 3, 1963 | preceded2 = [[William A. Dawson]] | succeeded2 = [[Sherman P. Lloyd]] | office3 = [[United States Ambassador to Madagascar]] | term_start3 = January 26, 1967 | term_end3 = August 16, 1969 | predecessor3 = C. Vaughan Ferguson, Jr. | successor3 = [[Anthony D. Marshall]] | president3 = [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]<br>[[Richard M. Nixon]] | office4 = [[United States Ambassador to Mauritius]] | term_start4 = July 29, 1968 | term_end4 = August 16, 1969 | predecessor4 = William B. Hussey | successor4 = [[William D. Brewer]] | president4 = [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]<br>[[Richard M. Nixon]] | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | occupation = Lawyer | education = [[University of Utah]]<br>[[Georgetown University Law School]] | spouse = Rosalie King | children = 8, including [[Jody Olsen|Jody]] }} '''David Sjodahl King''' (June 20, 1917 &ndash; May 5, 2009) was an American attorney and politician who served as a [[United States House of Representatives|representative]] from [[Utah]]. He served three terms between 1959 and 1967.

He was a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]].

== Early life and education == King was born in [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], in 1917. He graduated from the [[University of Utah]] in 1937. From 1937 to 1939, he served as a [[Mormon missionary|missionary]] for [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church) in [[Great Britain]].<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000199 David Sjodahl King biography in the Congressional Biography database]</ref> After his mission, King attended and graduated from [[Georgetown University Law School]]. After serving as a clerk for Justice Howard M. Stephens of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia]] in 1943, King returned to Utah.

== Legal and political career == King served as counsel to the Utah Tax Commission from 1944 to 1946. He also was involved in private practice from 1945. From 1946 to 1958, he taught commercial law at [[Stevens-Henager College|Intermountain Business College]]. From 1948 to 1958, King was the second assistant to [[Elbert R. Curtis]], who was the ninth General Superintendent of the LDS Church's [[Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association]].

=== Congress === King was elected as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to the 86th and 87th [[United States Congress]]es between January 3, 1959 and January 3, 1963. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1962, choosing instead to run for a seat in the [[United States Senate]]. His senatorial campaign was unsuccessful. King was elected to the 89th Congress in 1964, but was defeated in his bid for reelection in 1966.

=== Later career === He was appointed [[United States Ambassador to Madagascar]] and to [[United States Ambassador to Mauritius|Mauritius]] in January 1967 and in May 1968, respectively, serving in those two positions concurrently until August 1969.

During the 1970s and 1980s, King practiced law in [[Washington, D.C.]], and served as an alternate director at the [[World Bank]]. He retired in 1986 to devote his time to serving the LDS Church.

== LDS Church service == From July 1986 to June 1989, he served as [[mission president|president]] of the church's [[Haiti]] [[Port-au-Prince]] [[Mission (LDS Church)|Mission]]. From September 1990 to 1993 he was [[Temple president|president]] of the [[Washington D.C. Temple]] in [[Kensington, Maryland]].<ref> {{citation |url= https://www.thechurchnews.com/archive/1990-06-16/new-temple-presidents-2846|title= New temple presidents|journal= Church News |date=June 16, 1990 }}</ref><ref> {{citation |url= https://www.thechurchnews.com/archive/1993-06-12/new-temple-presidents-6153|title= New temple presidents|journal= Church News |date=June 12, 1993 }} </ref> In 1994, he was [[Calling (LDS Church)|called]] as [[Patriarch (Latter Day Saints)|patriarch]] of the Washington D.C. [[Stake (Latter Day Saints)|Stake]] and the church's [[District (Latter Day Saints)|district]] for the District of Columbia.<ref> {{citation |url= http://www.mission.net/haiti/port-au-prince/presidents.php?prID=4513|title= President David Sjodahl King|journal= Haiti Port-au-Prince Mission Alumni| access-date= 12 Oct 2012}}</ref>

== Family life == King was a resident of [[Kensington, Maryland]] where he lived with his wife of 61 years, Rosalie King. They were the parents of eight children, including [[Jody Olsen|Josephine "Jody" Olsen]] who became Director of the [[Peace Corps]] in 2018. His father, [[William H. King]], was a [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Utah]]. He was preceded in death by his sons David King, Jr., and Elliott West King. David King died on May 5, 2009.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.legacy.com/washingtonpost/DeathNotices.asp?Page=Notice&PersonID=127017825 | title= David S. King obituary | newspaper = Washington Post |date=7 May 2009 |access-date= 9 Aug 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705302558/David-King-prominent-Demo-from-Utah-dies.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018064102/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705302558/David-King-prominent-Demo-from-Utah-dies.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 18, 2012 | title= David King, prominent Demo from Utah dies | publisher= Deseret News 9 May 2009 | access-date= 9 Aug 2009}}</ref>

== Genealogy == King was a direct patrilineal descendant of [[Edmund Rice (1638)|Edmund Rice]], an English immigrant to [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]], as follows:<ref>Edmund Rice (1638) Association, 2007. Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations.</ref>

:*'''David Sjodahl King''', son of ::* [[William H. King|William Henry King]], (1863 &ndash; 1949), son of ::* William King (1834 &ndash; 1892), son of ::* Thomas Rice King (1813 &ndash; 1879),<ref>{{cite web | url=http://earlylds.com/getperson.php?personID=I16997&tree=Earlylds | title=Thomas Rice King | publisher= Early Latter Day Saints; Mormon Trail Database | access-date= 21 Sep 2010}}</ref> son of :* Thomas King (1770 &ndash; 1845), son of :* William King (1724 &ndash; 1793), son of ::* Ezra Rice King (1697 &ndash; 1746), son of :::* Samuel Rice King (1667 &ndash; 1713), son of ::::* Samuel Rice (1634 &ndash; 1684), son of :::::* [[Edmund Rice (1638)|Edmund Rice]] (1594 &ndash; 1663)

== Published works == *{{citation |first1= David S. |last1= King |year= 2000 |title= Come to the House of the Lord |publisher= Horizon Publishers & Distributors Inc. |isbn= 0-88290-687-9 }}

== See also == * [[Janne M. Sjödahl]]: maternal grandfather

== References == {{reflist}}

==Further reading== * (1994) [https://web.archive.org/web/20221103115801/https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/k/KING_DAVID.shtml "King, David Sjodahl"] article in the [https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/ ''Utah History Encyclopedia.''] The article was written by Doris F. Salmon and the Encyclopedia was published by the University of Utah Press. ISBN 9780874804256. Archived from [https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/k/KING_DAVID.shtml the original] on November 3, 2022 and retrieved on June 12, 2024.

==External links== *[http://archives.lib.byu.edu/agents/people/2641 Materials relating to David S. King] at [[L. Tom Perry Special Collections]], [[Harold B. Lee Library]], [[Brigham Young University]]

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