Solomon Bundy

Solomon Bundy ( May 22nd 1823 in Oxford, New York, † January 13, 1889 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1877 and 1879 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Solomon Bundy was born about eight years after the end of the British - American War in Chenango County. He attended community schools and the Oxford Academy. After that, he taught for several years. He also went to commercial transactions. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1859 he began to practice in Oxford. During his studies he worked as a Justice of the Peace and Clerk in the District (Board of Supervisors ) from Chenango County. In 1862 he was district attorney in Chenango County - a post he held until 1865. This period was overshadowed by the Civil War. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1876 for the 45th Congress Bundy was in the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Franklin Miller on March 4, 1877. Since he gave up for reelection in 1878, he retired after the March 3, 1879 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he worked as a lawyer again. He died on January 13, 1889 in Oxford, and was then buried in the Riverview Cemetery.