Reuben Knecht Bachman

Reuben Knecht Bachman ( born August 6 1834 in Williams, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, † September 19, 1911 in Easton, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Reuben Bachman attended the common schools and worked for several years as a teacher. Subsequently, he was active in Durham, among others in the trade. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1878 he was in the tenth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Augustus Bridges on March 4, 1879. Since he resigned in 1880 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1881.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Reuben Bachman worked in Riegelsville in wood and Sägemühlengeschäft. In July 1884 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in part, was nominated to the Grover Cleveland as a presidential candidate. He died on September 19, 1911 in Easton.