Ellsworth B. Buck

Ellsworth B. Buck

Ellsworth Brewer Buck (born July 3, 1892 in Chicago , Illinois , † August 14, 1970 in Stephenson , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1944 and 1949 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ellsworth Brewer Buck was born and raised in Chicago about six years before the outbreak of the Spanish-American War . During this time he attended public schools and the Morgan Park Academy . In 1914 he graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover ( New Hampshire ). Between 1914 and 1917 he worked in the chewing gum industry. During the First World War , he enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve on July 5, 1917 . Buck attended the Naval Aviation Ground School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He received an officer's license for Ensign and became an instructor in meteorology . In 1918 he was custodian of meteorological instruments at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, DC He then moved to Staten Island in 1919 , where he began to work at LA Dreyfus Co. Between 1932 and 1957 he was chairman of the board there. He presided over the Chewing Gum Code Authority under the NRA in 1934 and 1935 . Between 1935 and 1944 he served on the New York City Education Committee. During this time he was Vice President between 1938 and 1942 and President between 1942 and 1944. Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

He was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC in a by-election on June 6, 1944 in the eleventh constituency of New York to fill the vacancy created by the death of James A. O'Leary . In the regular congressional elections of 1944 , he ran in the 16th electoral district of New York for the 79th Congress . After a successful election, he succeeded James H. Fay on January 4, 1945 . He was re-elected once. Since he on a run again in 1948 renounced, he left the after January 3, 1949 Congress of.

After his time in Congress he took part in 1952 as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. In 1954 he was director of the Office of Trade Investment and Monetary Affairs and the Foreign Operations Administration . In 1955 he took part as a public advisor to the US delegation to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in Geneva ( Switzerland ). He died on August 14, 1970 in his summer home on Thunder Mountain Ranch in Stephenson Township . His body was cremated and the ashes were buried in the Burial Stone of Thunder Mountain Ranch Cemetery .

Web links

• Ellsworth B. Buck in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ellsworth B. Buck in the database of Find a Grave (English)