Ferdinand Brucker

Ferdinand Brucker ( born January 8, 1858 in Bridgeport, Saginaw County, Michigan, † March 3, 1904 in Saginaw, Michigan ) was an American politician (Democratic Party).

Career

Brucker attended the parish school in Bridgeport. Between 1878 and 1881 he was a member of the state militia. He received his doctorate in 1881 at the Institute of Law, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was admitted in the same year as a lawyer. Brucker began his legal practice in Saginaw. From 1882 to 1884 he was a town councilor of East Saginaw, 1888-1896 judge of the probate court in Saginaw County, and in 1896 a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was first nominated on the William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate.

Brucker was elected to the eighth constituency of Michigan House of Representatives of the 55th Congress. His tenure went on 4 March 1897 to 3 March 1899. During the re-election of 1898, he was unsuccessful and lost to Joseph W. Fordney. Then Brucker took his work as a lawyer again.

He died in Saginaw and was buried in Bridgeport Cemetery in Bridgeport. His son Wilber Marion Brucker was 1931-1932 Governor of Michigan; he belonged to, in contrast to his father, the Republican Party.

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