Charles R. Buckalew

Charles Rollin Buckalew ( born December 28, 1821 Fishing Creek, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, † May 19, 1899 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Pennsylvania in both houses of Congress.

After graduating from a private school in Susquehanna County Charles Buckalew studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Bloomsburg in the following year. In Columbia County, he served from 1845 to 1847 as a prosecutor.

Between 1850 and 1853 Buckalew was first politically active as a member of the State Senate. In 1854 he was a member of a commission to conclude a treaty with Paraguay, 1857, he was chairman of the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania. This was followed by another term in the state Senate from 1857 to 1858.

Charles Buckalew was appointed to a commission Also in 1857, the revised penal code of Pennsylvania. The following year he was appointed as the successor to the Messenger of Philo White of the United States in Ecuador, which he remained until 1861. After his return, he won the 1862 election to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate; this he was a member of 4 March 1863 to 3 March 1869. In the year of his retirement from Congress, he was the third time a state senator.

After an unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1872 Buckalew was in 1873 a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the state. In 1887 he then moved again in the U.S. Congress, where he remained in the House of Representatives from 1887 to 1891. He was then working as a lawyer in Bloomsburg again, where he died in May 1899.