Daniel Azro Ashley Buck

Daniel Azro Ashley Buck (born April 19, 1789 in Norwich , Vermont Republic , †  December 24, 1841 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the fourth and from 1827 to 1829 the fifth constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Daniel Azro Ashley Buck was the son of Daniel Buck (1753-1816), who sat between 1795 and 1797 for the State of Vermont in the US House of Representatives. The younger Buck moved to Chelsea , Vermont with his parents . Until 1807 he attended Middlebury College . After studying at the US Military Academy in West Point , he became a lieutenant in the US Army Engineer Corps in 1808 . In 1811 he resigned from the military and began studying law, which he interrupted when the British-American War broke out to return to active military service. First he became a lieutenant in an artillery unit and in 1813 he became a captain of an infantry unit. In the meantime he helped set up a volunteer regiment from Vermont. He officially remained in the army until June 1815. After completing his law degree, he started working in his new profession in Chelsea.

Buck was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . After its dissolution in the 1820s, he joined the short-lived National Republican Party , which was in opposition to the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson . The National Republican Party later merged into the Whig Party . Between 1816 and 1835 Buck was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives on several occasions ; at times he was also President of the House. He served as the district attorney in Orange County between 1819 and 1822 and again from 1830 to 1834 .

In 1822 Buck was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington in the fourth district of Vermont, where he succeeded Elias Keyes on March 4, 1823 . By March 3, 1825, he first completed a legislative period in Congress . In 1826 he was re-elected to Congress in the fifth district, where he took over the seat previously held by John Mattocks on March 4, 1827 . Since he was not nominated for another term in 1828, he could only remain in Congress for one legislative period until March 3, 1829. Between 1835 and 1839 Buck worked as a clerk for the War Department . In 1840 he joined the Treasury Department in Washington. He also died in the federal capital on December 24, 1841; he was buried in the congress cemetery.

Web links

• Daniel Azro Ashley Buck in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Daniel Azro Ashley Buck in the database of Find a Grave (English)