Alexander W. Buel

Alexander Woodruff Buel ( born December 13, 1813 in Castleton, Vermont, † April 19, 1868 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1851 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alexander Buel attended the public schools in Poultney and thereafter until 1830, the Middlebury College. He then worked as a teacher. After studying law and his 1835 was admitted as a lawyer, he started in Detroit, where he had since moved to work in his new profession. In 1837 he was legal representatives of this city. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1838 and 1848 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan, which he was president in 1848. Between 1843 and 1846, was Buel prosecutor in Wayne County.

In the congressional elections of 1848, he was the first electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert McClelland on March 4, 1849. Since he lost to Ebenezer J. Penniman of the Whig Party in the elections of 1850, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1851. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Buel again worked as a lawyer. In the years 1859 and 1860 he was again a deputy in the State Parliament. Between September 1860 and March 1861, he served as postmaster in Detroit. Alexander Buel died on April 19, 1868 in Detroit. He was married to Mary Ann Ackley, with whom he had four daughters.

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