Dr. Robert McGee King was born March 19, 1872 in a Cumberland Presbyterian Manse near Odessa, Missouri, son of the Rev. S. Finis King and a great-grandson of the Rev. Samuel King, who together with Finis Ewing and Samuel McAdoo, organized the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, near Dickson, Tennessee, in the home of the Rev. McAdoo, on February 4, 1810.

Dr. King has served as Stated Clerk of Lexington Presbytery since 1910, and when Lexington and Platte Presbyteries were consolidated he continued as Stated Clerk of the combined presbyteries. He was elected Stated Clerk of Missouri Synod in 1913 and continued in that capacity until his resignation September 10, 1953. For eighteen years he was a member of the General Assembly's Board of Missions and for sixteen years was Secretary-Treasurer.

Dr. King served as assistant surgeon at Vineyard Park Hospital, Kansas City, for thirty years. You have a brief account of a man who has given himself to the better interest of life. Coming of a distinguished family of churchmen he has kept the faith.