John T. Buckbee

John Theodore Buckbee ( born August 1, 1871 Rockford, Illinois, † April 23, 1936 ) was an American politician. Between 1927 and 1936 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Buckbee attended the public schools of his home. He then went to Europe and studied in Austria, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Italy and the UK agriculture and horticulture. Later he was active in the seed business in Rockford. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1926, Buckbee was the twelfth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the late Charles Eugene Fuller meantime on March 4, 1927. After four elections he could remain until his death on 23 April 1936 at the Congress. Since 1933, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In addition, in 1933, were the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified. 1935, the provisions of Article 20 Additional were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3. In 1936, John Buckbee wanted to refrain from further candidacy. But he died before the expiration of his last term.