Clarence Buckman

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Clarence Bennett Buckman,(April 1, 1851 – March 1, 1917) a Representative from Minnesota; born in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; attended the public and normal schools; moved to Minnesota in 1872 and settled in what is now known as Buckman; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the lumber business; appointed justice of the peace in 1873; member of the Minnesota House of Representatives 1881 – 1883; served in the Minnesota Senate 1887 – 1891 and 1899 – 1903; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth congresses (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1906; deputy United States marshal 1912 – 1917; resumed the lumber business in Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota; died in Battle Creek, Michigan, March 1, 1917; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Little Falls, Minnesota.

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• Clarence Buckman at Minnesota Legislators Past & Present

Preceded by Robert P. Morris

U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 6th congressional district 1903 – 1907

Succeeded by Charles Lindbergh, Sr.

• Clarence Buckman at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress