Gabriel Bouck

Gabriel Bouck

Gabriel Bouck (born December 16, 1828 in Fultonham , Schoharie County , New York , †  February 21, 1904 in Oshkosh , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1877 and 1881 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gabriel Bouck was a son of William C. Bouck (1786-1859), who served as governor of the state of New York from 1843 to 1844 . He was also a nephew of Joseph Bouck (1788-1858), who sat for New York in the US House of Representatives from 1831 to 1833. Gabriel Bouck attended Union College in Schenectady until 1847 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1848, he began to work in his new profession in Oshkosh. In 1858 and 1859, Bouck was Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin. In 1860 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Democratic Party member .

During the civil war , Bouck was an officer in the Union army . By his retirement from the military in January 1864, he had made it to the rank of colonel in a unit from Wisconsin. In 1868 and 1872 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . In 1874 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the same year he was again deputy and chairman of the state parliament.

In the 1876 ​​congressional election , Bouck was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Republican Alanson M. Kimball on March 4, 1877 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1881. In the elections of 1880 Bouck failed because of his Republican rival Richard W. Guenther . After leaving the US House of Representatives, he returned to work as a lawyer. Politically, he no longer appeared. Gabriel Bouck died in Oshkosh on February 21, 1904.

Web links

• Gabriel Bouck in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Gabriel Bouck in the database of Find a Grave (English)