Charles R. Buckalew

Charles R. Buckalew

Charles Rollin Buckalew (born December 28, 1821 in Fishing Creek , Columbia County , Pennsylvania , †  May 19, 1899 in Bloomsburg , Pennsylvania) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Pennsylvania in both chambers of Congress .

After graduating from a private school in Susquehanna County , Charles Buckalew studied law , was inducted into the bar in 1843, and began practicing in Bloomsburg the following year. In Columbia County he served as a prosecutor from 1845 to 1847.

Between 1850 and 1853 Buckalew was a member of the State Senate for the first time politically active. In 1854 he was a member of a commission to conclude a treaty with Paraguay , and in 1857 he was chairman of the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania. Another term of office in the State Senate followed from 1857 to 1858.

Also in 1857, Charles Buckalew was appointed to a commission that revised the Pennsylvania Penal Code . The following year he was appointed as the successor of Philo White to envoys of the United States in Ecuador called, which he remained until the 1,861th On his return he won the election to represent Pennsylvania in the US Senate in 1862 ; He belonged to this from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1869. In the year he left Congress, he became State Senator for the third time.

After an unsuccessful candidacy for governor of Pennsylvania in 1872, Buckalew was a delegate to the constitutional convention of the state in 1873. In 1887 he entered the US Congress again, where he remained in the House of Representatives from 1887 to 1891. He then returned to work as a lawyer in Bloomsburg, where he died in May 1899.

Web links

• Charles R. Buckalew in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles R. Buckalew in the database of Find a Grave (English)