John R. Buck

John Ransom Buck ( born December 6, 1835 in Glastonbury, Connecticut; † February 6, 1917 in Hartford, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1883, and from 1885 to 1887, he represented the first electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Buck attended the public schools of his home and then the Wilbraham Academy in Massachusetts and Wesleyan University in Middletown. He then worked himself for some time as a teacher. After studying law and its made ​​in 1862 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Hartford. Between 1864 and 1865 he was employed by the management of the House of Representatives from Connecticut; a year later he worked in the administration of the State Senate. In 1868 he was chairman of the city council of Hartford. Between 1871 and 1873 he was a legal representative and 1873-1881 Treasurer of the city.

Buck was a member of the Republican Party. From 1880 to 1881 he was a state senator. In the congressional elections of 1880 he was in the first district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph R. Hawley on March 4, 1881. Since he Democrat William W. Eaton defeated in the elections of 1882, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1883. Two years later, John Buck was in the congressional elections his old seat in Congress to recover and replace Eaton again on March 4, 1885. Until March 3, 1887, he remained another term in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1886, he lost to Democrat Robert J. Vance.

After retiring from Congress, John Buck withdrew from politics. He again worked as a lawyer in Hartford, where he died in February 1917.