The fonds pertains to David King's political career including material created, used, maintained, and received while he served as Legislative Secretary in 1972, as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the constituency of Edmonton Highlands for the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, and as Minister of Education from 1979 to 1986 and includes alphabetical correspondence with government departments, day files, office subject files, caucus and progressive conservative party files, constituency files, memos, clippings, travel itineraries, letters of congratulation, speeches, drafts, Christmas cards, photographs, mail logs, requests for information, briefs, agendas, and certificates.