Alexander W. Buel

Alexander Woodruff Buel (born December 13, 1813 in Castleton , Vermont , †  April 19, 1868 in Detroit , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1849 and 1851 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Alexander Buel attended the public schools in Poultney and then until 1830 Middlebury College . He then worked as a teacher. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1835, he began to work in his new profession in Detroit, where he had since moved. In 1837 he became the city's legal representative. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In the years 1838 and 1848 he sat as a member of the House of Representatives from Michigan , whose president he was in 1848, succeeding George Washington Peck . Between 1843 and 1846 Buel was a prosecutor in Wayne County .

In the congressional election of 1848 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Robert McClelland on March 4, 1849 . Since he lost to Ebenezer J. Penniman of the Whig Party in the 1850 elections, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1851 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Buel returned to work as a lawyer. In the years 1859 and 1860 he was once again a member of the state parliament. Between September 1860 and March 1861 he served as a postman in Detroit. Alexander Buel died in Detroit on April 19, 1868. He was married to Mary Ann Ackley, with whom he had four daughters.

Web links

• Alexander W. Buel in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Alexander W. Buel in the database of Find a Grave (English)