Alfred Eliab Buck
Alfred Eliab Buck | |
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Francis W. Kellogg | |
Succeeded by | Benjamin S. Turner |
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Born | Tokyo, Japan | February 7, 1832
Resting place | Arlington National Cemetery |
Political party | Republican |
Alma mater | Waterville College |
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Nickname | "Boss Buck" |
Alfred Eliab Buck (February 7, 1832 – December 4, 1902) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Biography
Born in
During the Civil War, he entered the Union Army as captain of Company C, Thirteenth Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry. He was appointed lieutenant colonel of the Ninety-first United States Colored Troops in August 1863, was transferred to the Fifty-first United States Colored Troops in October 1864, and was made brevetted colonel of Volunteers for gallant conduct. He was mustered out of the service at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in June 1866.
Buck then began to work in southern Alabama as an officer of the
Buck ran for Congress in 1868, to represent Alabama's 1st District, which at the time included both Selma and Mobile. Due to the laws of the reconstruction government, most people who fought for the Confederacy were ineligible to vote in that election. As a result, a large majority of the voters in that election were newly freed African Americans. Local whites were furious at the prospect of being outvoted by African Americans, and the local Ku Klux Klan was formed in an attempt to prevent voting in Alabama's first district congressional election. However, the United States Army occupied the area in enough force to prevent the Klan from disrupting that particular election. As a result, Buck won the election.
Buck was elected as a
Buck was later appointed president of the city council of
In 1896, Buck was the leader of the Georgia Republican Party. Buck was the president of the Republican State Convention in late April, and he presided over the electing of delegates to the 1896 Republican National Convention. There was a dispute over the delegates, which Buck attempted to preempt by passing a "harmony" slate of delegates outside of standard procedure. However, the slate did not include Emanuel K. Love's friend, Richard R. Wright, who many believed would be a delegate. The convention erupted in protest, a representative of Buck's attempted to adjourn the meeting, and the Buck faction left the hall. The Love and Wright faction remained, and Love took the chair, electing a new slate of delegates, now including Love (and Buck, but still not Wright).[6] Eventually, Buck was a delegate and Wright attended as an alternate delegate.[7]
Buck was appointed
See also
References
- United States Congress. "Alfred Eliab Buck (id: B001011)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on February 14, 2008
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. I. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 386. Retrieved April 19, 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ Alfred Eliab Buck: Carpetbagger in Alabama and Georgia by Shyam Krishna Bhurtel, Auburn University - 1981. Pg. 99, 101, 119-121
- ^ Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama By Walter Lynwood Fleming pg. 518
- ^ "Alfred Buck".
- ^ The Man who Robbed the Robber Barons by Andy Logan, pg. 97, 102
- ISBN 9780820334820. Retrieved April 20, 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ Republican national convention, St. Louis, June 16th to 18th, 1896. With a history of the Republican party and a survey of national politics since the party's foundation, etc., etc, Republican National Convention (11th : 1896 : Saint Louis, Mo.), page 179, accessed October 17, 2016.
- ^ "Minister Buck Dies Suddenly". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Washington. December 5, 1902. p. 4. Retrieved April 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress