Daniel Azro Ashley Buck

Daniel Azro Ashley Buck ( born April 19, 1789 in Norwich, Vermont, † December 24, 1841 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the fourth and 1827-1829 the fifth electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Azro Ashley Buck was the son of Daniel Buck (1753-1816), who was sitting 1795-1797 for the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives. The younger Buck moved with his parents to Chelsea in Vermont. Until 1807 he attended Middlebury College. After his studies at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he was a lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers in 1808 the U.S. Army. In 1811 he resigned from the military service and began a law degree, but he interrupted at the outbreak of the British -American War to re-enter the active military service. First, he was lieutenant in an artillery unit, and in 1813 he became a captain of an infantry unit. In the meantime, he was instrumental in the establishment of a volunteer regiment from Vermont. Officially he remained until June 1815 in the Army. After completing his law studies he began in Chelsea to work in his new profession.

Buck was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. After its dissolution in the 1820s he joined the short-lived National Republican Party that stood in opposition to the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson. Later, the National Republican party went on in the Whig party. Between 1816 and 1835 Buck was several times delegate in the House of Representatives from Vermont; at times he was also president of the house. Between 1819 and 1822, and again from 1830 to 1834, he served as district attorney in Orange County.

1822 Buck was selected in the fourth district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Elias Keyes on March 4, 1823. Until March 3, 1825, he first completed a term in Congress. In 1826 he was elected to Congress again in the fifth district, where he took over the seat previously held by John Mattocks on March 4, 1827. Since he was not nominated in 1828 for a second term, he could again remain only for a term in Congress until March 3, 1829. Between 1835 and 1839 Buck worked as a clerk for the War Department. In 1840 he entered the service of the Treasury Department in Washington. In the federal capital on December 24, 1841 he is also deceased; He was buried at the Congress Cemetery.