Alfred Eliab Buck

Alfred Eliab Buck

Alfred Eliab Buck (born February 7, 1832 in Foxcroft , Piscataquis County , Maine , † December 4, 1902 in Tokyo , Japan ) was an American officer and politician ( Republican Party ).

Career

Alfred Eliab Buck graduated from Waterville College (now Colby College ) in 1859 .

After the outbreak of the American Civil War he enlisted in the Union Army and initially held the rank of captain in Company C, 13th Regiment , Maine Volunteer Infantry . In August 1863 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in the 91st United States Colored Troops . Buck was then transferred to the 51st United States Colored Troops in October 1864. Furthermore, he later received for his heroism appointment as Brevet - Colonel . It was in June 1866 Baton Rouge ( Louisiana retired).

Buck took as a delegate to the 1867 Constitutional Convention of Alabama in part. He also served as a clerk in Mobile County District Court for the same year and subsequent . Then he was elected to the 41st US Congress , where he was active between March 4, 1869 and March 3, 1871. Buck was named President of Mobile City Council in 1873 . Then he was from 1874 to 1889 as a clerk at the federal and state courts in Atlanta ( Georgia worked). He then served as US Marshal for the Northern District of Georgia between 1889 and 1893 . On April 13, 1897, US President William McKinley appointed him ambassador to Japan, a position he held until his death on December 4, 1902. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery .

Web links

• Alfred Eliab Buck in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Entry on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• Alfred Eliab Buck in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Japan on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department