William R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852 Frame Style:Ebony Frame General-in-Chief of the Armies of

General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U

The likeness carries the hard set of an officer who answered for Kentucky

John Alexander McClernand

the President struck down at its threshold

the kind of decorative address printed when the republic was still introducing itself to the wider world and pleased to be looked upon

William R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852 Frame Style:Ebony Frame General-in-Chief of the Armies ofWilliam R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852. A campaign portrait of the Alabama senator yoked to Franklin Pierce on a ticket that bet the Union on compromise King would win the office and die before he could meaningfully hold it, his lithographed dignity outlasting his lungs. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,