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Early LifeHoratio Collins King was born in Portland, Maine, on December 22, 1837. He was the product of a northern Democratic family and his father, Horatio King, relocated the family to Washington, D.C., after receiving a position in the Post Office Department.[1] The older King was eventually appointed to become the Postmaster General under the Democratic Buchanan administration in 1861.[2] As a young man, Horatio Collins King attended Rittenhouse Academy before leaving to become a student at Emory and Henry College, a preparatory school in Emory, Virginia.[3] Charles Collins, King’s uncle, was the college president at the time.[4] This was an undeniable factor that led King to attend a school just above the Tennessee border and over 350 miles from his home in the District of Columbia.
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