Gabriel Bouck

Gabriel Bouck ( born December 16, 1828 in Fultonham, Schoharie County, New York, † February 21, 1904 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1881 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gabriel Bouck was a son of William C. Bouck (1786-1859), who served as Governor of the State of New York from 1843 to 1844. He was also a nephew of Joseph Bouck (1788-1858), who was sitting 1831-1833 for New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Gabriel Bouck attended until 1847, the Union College in Schenectady. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1848 admitted to the bar he began in Oshkosh to work in his new profession. In the years 1858 and 1859 was Bouck Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin. In 1860 he was elected as a member of the Democratic Party in the Wisconsin State Assembly.

During the Civil War was Bouck officer in the army of the Union. Until his retirement from military service in January 1864, he had brought it in a unit from Wisconsin to the colonel. In the years 1868 and 1872 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. In 1874, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. In the same year he was again deputy and chairman of the State Parliament.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Bouck was in the sixth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Alanson M. Kimball on March 4, 1877. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1881 two legislative sessions. In the elections of 1880 Bouck failed at his Republican opponent Richard W. Guenther. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. Politically, he is no more have appeared. Gabriel Bouck died on February 21, 1904 in Oshkosh.

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