Selma police are looking for the vandals who defaced the gravesite of William Rufus King, a politician who briefly served as U.S. vice president in 1853 and represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate.
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King, who was also a U.S. senator representing Alabama, briefly served as vice president during the Franklin Pierce administration, holding the post from March 4, 1853 until his death in Selma nearly a month later on April 15, 1853.
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