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William R. King

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U.S. Vice President

The Resume

Why he might be annoying:

    Some have speculated that he may have been gay, and had a long-term relationship with James Buchanan.
    Both he and James Buchanan were life-long bachelors.
    He lived with James Buchanan at one point in Washington DC, furthering these rumors.
    He had a county in Washington named after him that was rechristened in 1986 to honor >Martin Luther King Jr. instead.
    He took his oath of office for the Vice President in Havana, where he had gone for bad health.
    Tax money supported his stay in Cuba due to a special act of Congress.
    He owned a plantation in the south known as 'King's Bend' where he is buried.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He left the U.S. Senate right when it started to get bitter.
    He strived his whole life to become the Vice President, a position most see as unwanted.
    He finally got it when he was being destroyed by tuberculosis.
    He was only Vice President for a year.
    He was respected by his peers enough to let him take his oath of office outside the United States, the only Vice President to do so.

Credit: Captain Howdy


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 89 Votes: 61.80% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 10 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 18 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 20 Votes: 35.00% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 66 Votes: 34.85% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 118 Votes: 43.22% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 119 Votes: 44.54% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 201 Votes: 44.28% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 92 Votes: 47.83% Annoying