Daniel Buck

Daniel Buck ( born November 9, 1753 in Hebron, Connecticut; † August 16, 1816 in Chelsea, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1795 and 1797 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

During the Revolutionary War fought the young Daniel Buck on the American side. He was so badly wounded that he lost an arm. He then moved to Orange County in Vermont. After studying law he was admitted in 1783 as a lawyer. He then began to practice in his new profession in Thetford. Between 1783 and 1785, he was district attorney in Orange County. In the meantime he was clerk at the local court.

In 1785 Daniel Buck moved to Norwich. Politically, he joined, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. In 1791 he was a delegate to the Constituent Assembly of his state. Between 1793 and 1794 he was a member and President of the House of Representatives of Vermont. In the congressional elections of 1794, he was elected in the second district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Nathaniel Niles on March 4, 1795. This mandate he held until March 3, 1797. While Buck was re-elected in 1796, but he took his seat in Congress no longer a, which in Vermont a by-election was necessary, then the Lewis R. Morris won.

Between 1802 and 1803, Buck Attorney General of Vermont. Around the year 1805 he moved to Chelsea. Between 1806 and 1807, he was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Vermont. Then he worked until his death in 1816 as a lawyer. Daniel Buck was married to Contend Ashley of Windsor, with whom he had eleven children. Among them was the son of Daniel, who should be Congressman for Vermont later also.