William Rufus King
person
4 mentions
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Sep
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U.S. Senator from Alabama, longtime partner of James Buchanan
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Peak in the day, 4 Sep — 1 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentBobby BonesThe Bobby Bones Show · FRI PT 1: Max McNown: From Starbucks To Stardom + Bobby Want... · 31:41 · 4 Sep
…With Alabama Senator William Rufus King.…
Eleanor HermanBetwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Sex Lives of American Presidents · 24:29 · 3 Jul
…When he was a young man, he met William Rufus King, who was what we might call flamboyantly gay, and they developed a lifelong relationship and often lived together.…
Dr. Kate ListerAmerican History Hit · Presidents' Private Lives · 22:45 · Nov 2024
…So those were terms usually used to denote gay men. And when King went to France to serve as US ambassador in the 1840s, Buchanan wrote to a friend that he was very lonely and that he'd gone a-wooing to several gentlemen, but they had all turned him down. So William Rufus King became vice president and died in 1853. And then a few years later, Buchanan bec…
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